Top 12 Sombered Quotes
#2. It's tough to know the value of water until it's gone.
Mark Udall
#3. You know I don't read novels,' she said and, trying to equal his jesting mood, went on: 'Besides, you once said it was the height of bad form for husbands and wives to love each other.'
'I once said too God damn many things,' he retorted abruptly and rose to his feet.
Margaret Mitchell
#4. The colonists' first protest against the British unfolded on Aug. 14, 1765 at the Liberty Tree. A magnificent elm towering over the other trees nearby, the Liberty Tree stood at the corner of what is now Washington and Essex Streets in downtown Boston.
Ronald Kessler
#6. Memory is a poet, not an historian.
Marie Howe
#7. Push something in someone's face, and they will shove it away reflexively. Threaten to snatch it away from them, and sometimes they become convinced that it is what they want.
Frances Hardinge
#8. O that I were your lover for a month or two, he murmured,
I would make that pretty heart's blood of yours ache in a fortnight.
Helen Simpson
#9. People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person.
Robert Redford
#10. In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.
Oliver Goldsmith
#11. Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.
Anne Sexton
#12. I didn't tell him. And I never told her the whole truth. What would it matter? There was nothing she could do; nothing anyone can do or will do.
Julie Anne Peters