Quotes About Mayfly

#1. When you hear somebody with balls, that's me.

Carol Kaye

#2. Everything is repeated, in a circle. History is a master because it teaches us that it doesn't exist. It's the permutations that matter.

Umberto Eco

#3. We love it where we from, but we kick it where we at.

Ladybug Mecca

#4. They rest in us and we in them. Our heart contains all others. One heart, one life, on the advent of a mayfly's final flight

Rick Yancey

#5. He drops into the room, landing on the balls of his feet like a cat. I'm in his arms in the time it takes to say 'I love you,' which he does, stroking my hair, whispering my name and the words, 'My mayfly.

Rick Yancey

#6. Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#7. Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.

Publilius Syrus

#8. Learning between grown-ups and kids should be reciprocal. The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it.

Adora Svitak

#9. The mayfly lives only one day. And sometimes it rains.

George Carlin

#10. If you're an insect, then you're a mayfly. Here for a day and then gone.

Rick Yancey

#11. Don't weep, insects
Lovers, stars themselves,
Must part.

Kobayashi Issa

#12. in the heart's rain
in the eye's fog
in the winter's smoky snow
in whirling snow
in storms
wind which wants to tear my coat off
legends stories
the blood red dawn of the mind
the warm spring between your thighs
the only haven

Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa

#13. [H]e found poetry more comforting than Scripture - and his ability to forge from his life a cogent, powerful tale of living with death.

Paul Kalanithi

#14. Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason.

Eric Holder