Fugiunt Quotes

#1. Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower.
[Lat., Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem.]

Ovid

#2. It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by forcible asportation and education of the infant against the will of the father.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. But our forest is sacred & magical with many unusual creatures & plants.We don't want people to destroy everything!

Magda M. Olchawska

#4. The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.

Lenny Wilkens

#5. I can't see why we can't toss in a Junior Walker or Wilson Pickett number in every once in a while.

Jose Carreras

#6. We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life!

Thomas Merton

#7. I love driving, but I like driving on a two lane road where you can drive for hours and not see anybody.

Jacob Lofland

#8. Let us learn to see the beauty of life. Let us learn to appreciate and forgive. This is when we will find peace everywhere.

Debasish Mridha

#9. My father built a time machine and then he spent his whole life trying to figure out how to use it to get more time. He spent all the time he had with us thinking about how he wished he had more time, if he could only have more time.

Charles Yu

#10. I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time.

Haruki Murakami

#11. I can't keep track of my hospital time. It all sort of blurs together.

Evel Knievel

#12. It was a kind of sin, certainly, to forget - but it was not easy to remember, especially when names changed, languages changed. A century-old name held that century; when replaced, a hundred years were wiped out at one stroke. Amnesia set it; reality itself, being metamorphic, was affected.

Ninotchka Rosca

#13. For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me.

Leonard Nimoy

#14. I live and die with the Chicago Cubs.

Sara Paretsky