Daintiness Quotes

#1. She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was not attending to the conversation, but solely busy with the tea-cups, among which her round ivory hands moved with pretty, noiseless, daintiness.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#2. There is a delicacy in it equalled only by the daintiness of the elephant's trunk.

Herman Melville

#3. There is to me a daintiness about early flowers that touches me like poetry. They blow out with such a simple loveliness among the common herbs of pastures, and breathe their lives so unobtrusively, like hearts whose beatings are too gentle for the world.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#4. Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.

Gertrude Stein

#5. In the early 1950s, during the near avalanche of discoveries, rediscoveries, and redefinitions of subcellular components made possible by electron microscopy, those prospecting in this newly opened field were faced with the problem of what to do with their newly acquired wealth.

George Emil Palade

#6. What I've found is that country doesn't refer to where you grew up as much as where your heart grows down, where it takes root. Country is a state of mind. I believe what ultimately defines being country is simple: a loving heart, a helping hand, an open mind, poor in spirit.

Clay Walker

#7. A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.

Paule Marshall

#8. We take five, one-week vacations a year, and those dates are set in stone.

Tom Joyner

#9. A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the Christmas lights so they don't miss your house.

Caroline Leavitt

#10. He's no stranger to pretty words.

Maya Banks

#11. An image means nothing. It is just a door, leading to the next door. It will never happen that we will find the truth we are looking for just in an image; it will happen behind the last door that the spectator discovers the truth, because of his own efforts.

Antoni Tapies

#12. This is your family ... If you learn to love us then you will forever have our love in return.

Katie McGarry

#13. When you fill life with mourning and complaints, your accomplishments will be a little lower than success.

Auliq Ice

#14. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Bertrand Russell

#15. Some memories aren't meant to go down smoothly; they're meant to choke you until you suffocate.

Tali Alexander

#16. The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.

Mac Thornberry