Folwell Embroidery Quotes

#1. A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.

Gabrielle Dubois

#2. Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery.

Edith Wharton

#3. If you were a country," I said, "what would your national anthem be?"
I meant a pre-existing song
"What a Wonderful World" or "Que Sera, Sera" or something to make it a joke, like "Hey Ya!" ("I would like, more than anything else, for my nation to be shaken like a Polaroid picture.")

David Levithan

#4. In the end, though, it doesn't really matter. I think the key is to accept who you are, however you got that way. To embrace it, without reservations or hesitations. Because once you own who you are, it's not a limitation anymore. It's a source of strenght.
- Mo

Erica O'Rourke

#5. Her track, where'er the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and gen'rous shame, Th' unconquerable mind, and freedom's holy flame.

Thomas Gray

#6. The difference between a theist and an atheist is the degree to which God has revealed himself to them.

Eli Of Kittim

#7. Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations.

Shirin Ebadi

#8. Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.

Alexander Pope

#9. Life is swimming to shore with cowboy boots on.

Christopher G. Moore

#10. Sacred Infant, all divine, What a tender love was Thine, Thus to come from highest bliss Down to such a world as this.

Edward Caswall

#11. Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we're talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully with a bit more perspective and honesty. With many exceptions, a movie with no jokes is far less appealing to me.

Alexander Payne

#12. I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

John Hurt

#13. But tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun

The Beatles