Page 40 Quotes

#1. Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets.

Kahlil Gibran

#2. As a well-spent day gives, joy in sleep
so a well-spent life brings, joy in dying

Leonardo Da Vinci

#3. To be a complete victim may be another source of power.

Iris Murdoch

#4. All over America highschool and college kids thinking 'Jack Duluoz is 26 years old and on the road all the time hitch hiking' while there I am almost 40 years old, bored and jaded

Jack Kerouac

#5. Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.

Tom Wolfe

#6. She was incomparable in her inspired loveliness. Her arms amazed one, as one can be astonished by a lofty way of thinking. Her shadow on the wallpaper of the hotel room seemed the silhouette of her uncorruption.

Boris Pasternak

#7. Search, which is extremely important, represents about 5% of the page views on the Internet and 40% of the revenue. So, highly monetized.

Terry Semel

#8. You're not lonely when you're teaching, you're not quiet, you're laughing most of the time, you're having a wonderful time interacting with young people. It's the best fun in the world.

Mem Fox

#9. We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.

Paul Wellstone

#10. It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

Joyce Maynard

#11. I want you to be my family now, for us to be a family together.

Melanie Dickerson

#12. Always when Will did something to protect Tessa, Jem thought it was for his sake, not for Will's. Always Will wished Jem could be entirely right. Each needle prick had it own name. Guilt. Shame. Love.

Cassandra Clare

#13. I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.

Caitlin Moran