Learn About Loss Quotes

#1. After clearing the land, planting the orchard, building the house and barn, and surviving the Great Depression, our father died suddenly one winter night when we were small, leaving us to learn about loss before we even knew its name.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

#2. What's important is to get into shape and then not to have to worry about it. I don't want to get on stage and not being able to do something. Not being physically fit doesn't work for me.

Chris Cornell

#3. Rick Perry was philosophical about (his election losses). He said, 'Last week was Iowa. Yesterday was New Hampshire. ' He said at least it's giving him a chance to learn the names of all the states.

Jay Leno

#4. I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.

Sharon Olds

#5. She'd been away a long time, seeing the world. Now, she had to get home. She had learned much while she was away. She knew about courage and fear, she knew about gain and loss. She certainly knew about love and anguish and murder of love. But now she was going to learn about mass death. She'd

Nnedi Okorafor

#6. That is the correct grammar, you know: her husband and me.

Gillian Flynn

#7. Knowledge is power. The moment the masses acquire this power, control fades. And when control fades, chaos erupts.

Felix O. Hartmann

#8. This afternoon, I've arranged for this ceremony to be illuminated by solar power.

Jimmy Carter

#9. It was a Friday night, two in the morning, and my two best friends were shrieking

Tijan

#10. A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is more likely to make poor choices in the home, the marketplace, the jury box, and the voting booth. And those decisions ultimately affect the entire nation ... the literate and illiterate.

Jim Trelease

#11. I'm not going to say a damn word about it being tough; I'm having the best time of my life!

Kurt Cobain

#12. 'Everything is temporary. Nothing lasts. We're born. We die. Life's all about loss and change. Things happen, we learn to adapt or we don't, but we move on in some way or another. Sometimes that's hard and takes longer than we'd like.'

Barbara Elsborg

#13. Bless my soul," whispered the old bartender, "Harry Potter ... what an honor.

J.K. Rowling

#14. I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.

Alyson Noel

#15. Explaining one's recent loss as more of a continuous journey rather than a dead end, giving one of the invaluable opportunity to gain strength and learn about oneself, and thereby turning this terribly tragic affair into something hugely positive.

Cecelia Ahern

#16. The one thing I learned about myself going back and watching tapes of all the losses that we've had is that I'm physically capable of doing this and dominating the game, but the mental part was not there. I don't know if it comes with age, but I had to learn to be mentally tough.

Lisa Leslie

#17. If you're a sexist, racist, homophobe, or basically an asshole, don't buy this CD. I don't care if you like me, I hate you.

Kurt Cobain

#18. I really enjoy being with my fans. They offer great support and encouragement to me. I like signing autographs and posing for pictures.

Lexi Thompson

#19. Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Denis Diderot

#20. Sadly, a prize for peace is a rarity in this world. Most nations have monuments or memorials to war, bronze salutations to heroic battles, archways of triumph. But peace has no parade, no pantheon of victory.

Kofi Annan