Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jayme Braasch

I'd do about anything for her, she is pretty much the sister I have never had.

Willa Ford

My major influence was my ten years older sister.

Washington Irving

A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.

Luc Ferrari

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

Eric Allin Cornell

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

Jodi Picoult

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

Jodi Picoult

I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words.

Mary Wortley Montagu

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

William Saroyan

In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed...In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.

Samuel Johnson

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

LL Cool J

What I'm sowing today, I be reaping tomorrow So here's some joyful bars, to replace your sorrow.

Louis Sullivan

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

John Henry Newman

I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain.

John Donne

Great sorrows cannot speak.

Freya Stark

From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

Ken Schanzer

Whatever it is we're paying, ... we're delighted to be in this relationship. We want to keep going forever.

Gordon Strachan

He is doing very well. I have been delighted with his performances recently and he is not going anywhere.

Robert Penn Warren

Tell me a story of deep delight.

Wendell Berry

Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world continues without our help. It invites us to delight in the world's beauty and abundance.

Mark Ford

I'm delighted we have a general manager that would be in demand. I love that they want to get our general manager, if it's true. But we're going to keep Doug with us.

Fabio Capello

I'm delighted he has taken his total to 100. He has always been a great finisher,

Guru Nanak

The Husband Lord is delightful and forever young, night and day, He embellishes His bride.

William Sharp

Ah, the strange, sweet, lonely delight Of the Valleys of Dream.

Daddy Yankee

That song Oye Mi Canto was the key to introduce reggaeton to the masses. It's like what Rapper's Delight (by the Sugarhill Gang) was for the hip-hop movement in the early '80s.