quotes and sayings for girls

Was there ever a grandparent, bushed after a day of minding noisy youngsters, who hasn't felt the Lord knew what He was doing when He gave little children to young people? ~Joe E. Wells



Time is the fire in which we burn. ~Delmore Schwartz, "Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day," 1937 (Thank you, George.)



I believe humans get a lot done, not because we're smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee. ~Flash Rosenberg



Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you. ~John De Paola



I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help. ~Ruth Bernhard



Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. ~Mother Teresa



The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. ~Thomas Hardy



The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright



There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection is the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted. ~Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behaviour



No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. ~John Morley



The minute a phrase becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time. ~Art Buchwald



Love is the poetry of the senses. ~Honore de Balzac



Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel. ~Judge Sturgess



A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. ~Andre Gide



The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning - and the younger generation doesn't think much of it either. ~John J. Welsh



Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ~Albert Einstein



Through sources, we have obtained the following alien assessment of the human species: The male wants to be valued for what he pretends to be. The female wants to be overvalued for what she truly is. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. ~Zsa Zsa Gabor



Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, to discover what is already there. ~Henry Miller, Sexus