quotes for a girlfriend
Help one another, is part of the religion of sisterhood. ~Louisa May Alcott
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ~Jean Houston
Backdraft has the right-of-way. ~Author Unknown
And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave. ~Joseph Drake
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. ~Carl Sandburg
Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you. ~Jacques Prevert
If angels rarely appear, it's because we all too often mistake the medium for the Message. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top. ~Arnold Bennett
I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too dirty to breathe, the water too polluted to drink, the commuters are losing out in the struggle to get in and out of the city, the streets are filthy, and the schools so bad that the young perhaps wisely stay away, and the hoodlums roll citizens for some of the dollars they saved in the tax cut. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. ~Henry David Thoreau
Staying with people consists in your not having your own way, and their not having theirs. ~Maarten Maartens
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. ~Bertrand Russell, Look, 1954
I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry. ~Jean Rhys
Journalism is organized gossip. ~Edward Egglestone
Sometimes God calms the storm. At other times, he calms the sailor. And sometimes he makes us swim. ~Author Unknown
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. ~Bertrand Russell
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ~William Penn
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ~Robert Southey
Soccer is a game in which everyone does a lot of running around. Twenty-one guys stand around and one guy does a tap dance with the ball. ~Jim Murray, 1967
The most sensitive members of the human and animal populations are much like the canaries in the mines. They are the first to show distress, often becoming ill for unknown reasons. They provide the distant early warning for us all. ~Karilee and Richard Shames, Feeling Fat, Fuzzy, or Frazzled?, 2005