Ephemerals Quotes

#1. The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. Sheffield had decided, centuries back, that the saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.) "Oh,

Robert A. Heinlein

#3. Worry about right and wrong wasn't a concept he embraced. Right and wrong were ephemerals; they changed from every angle, from hour to hour, depending on which side of any of a thousand borders a soldier was born.

Nevada Barr

#4. Ephemerals: That's what Hub called them; flowers that bloomed and died in a matter of weeks, before the trees leafed out and shaded them. She liked the way the word sounded in her head. I am an ephemeral. It made her feel like something passing and precious.

Pamela Todd

#5. The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

Herbert Bayard Swope

#6. What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several hominids that inhabited Planet Earth, and like our distant cousins who went extinct fairly recently, our time on Planet Earth is also finite.

Louise Leakey

#7. Old age is an island surrounded by death.

Juan Montalvo

#8. Septimus has been working too hard - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.

Virginia Woolf

#9. Girls. The oldest mystery in the universe.

Linda Sue Park

#10. Dogs get after big living. They seem illiterate of worry, yet able to read joys that elude us. They quietly shout to us: Wag your backside to music instead of your tongue to malice.

Michael Cogdill