Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Lloyd Wright

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

Noam Chomsky

If we move toward the weaponisation of space, we can bid farewell to the planet. The chances of survival are very slight.

Nikki Sixx

Its just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means for now.

Martin Luther

Farewell unhappy, hopeless, blasphemous Rome! The Wrath of God has come upon you, as you deserve. We cared for Babylon, and she is not healed; let us then leave her, that she may become the habitation of dragons, spectres, and witches.

The mechanism of surcharges might be better than trying to put things in the fare because if fuel prices go up, the surcharge reflects that. We're going to have to learn to live with surcharges - it's not something we like to do but we do need to pass on some of these costs.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead.

Henrik Ibsen

I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!

Libba Bray

A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about town with the sharp elbows. Hail and farewell to you! For I, Gemma Doyle, am to have a splendid Christmas in London town. All shall be well. God rest us merry gentlemen. And gentlewomen.

Lord Byron

Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.

Khalil Gibran

We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings with his fingers over our throats, one weeping and the other laughing hideously. As I took Selma's hand and put it to my lips, she came close to me and placed a kiss on my forehead, then dropped on the wooden bench. She shut her eyes and whispered softly, "Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings!

David Brenner

You weren't doing a Cher thing. This wasn't your 12th farewell tour.

Robert A. Heinlein

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

Laura Nyro

Emily And her love to be Carved in a heart On a berry tree But it's only a little farewell lovespell Time to design a woman

Peter S. Beagle

Haggard, I would not be you for all the world," he declared. "You have let your doom in by the front door, although it will not depart that way. (...) Farewell, poor Haggard, farewell!

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark.

Jorge Luis Borges

To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.

Gregg Popovich

You can only like the guy so much. After a while, it's 'OK, OK, we get it.' It's like a farewell tour.

Paulo Coelho

With every farewell comes a hidden hope.

R. A. Salvatore

Farewell, my friend," Drizzt whispered, trying futilely to keep his voice from breaking. :This journey you make alone.

John Keats

I always made an awkward bow.

Lord Byron

Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave.

John Dryden

Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own.

George MacDonald

Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to believe it. What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good. And so, FAREWELL.

John Bunyan

Farewell, I wish our souls may meet with comfort at the journey's end.- The Heavenly Footman: A Puritan's View of How to Get to Heaven.

Robin Hobb

Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us.

Thomas de Quincey

Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated everlasting farewells!

Hark! She is called, the parting hour is come. Take thy farewell, poor world! Heaven must go home. . . .

Haruki Murakami

So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's snatched right out of our hands--even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

William Joyce

I say, Ich liebe Deutschland! Heil Hitler! and farewell.

William Butler Yeats

Farewell - farewell, For I am weary of the weight of time.

Walter Savage Landor

The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.

Walter Savage Landor

There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.