I'd rather live for what I believe in rather than die for…

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone.…

— Gerry Adams

“Sookie: "Eric, when I'm back to being myself, I'm going to nail your ass for putting me in this position of being pledged to…

— Charlaine Harris

The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to…

— Matilda Joslyn Gage

“A thousand years or more ago, When I was newly sewn, There lived four wizards of renown, Whose name are still well-known: Bold Gryffindor…

— JK Rowling

“That girl, dead and gone, her spirit trapped forever just inside town limits—she'd come from someplace, was going somewhere. Until destiny had stepped into…

— Kat Rosenfield

“When I got there it was all still and Sunday-like, and hot and sunshiny - the hands was gone to the fields; and there…

— Mark Twain

“They all seem infected with a vivaciousness that isn't common in our compound, and there are more smiles on their faces than I've ever…

— Jessica Khoury

“[On writing more Sherlock Holmes stories.] ‘I don’t care whether you do or not,’ said Bram. ‘But you will, eventually. He’s yours, till death…

— Graham Moore

“I don't want to see no dead body. Willie ain't in there. She put her walkin' shoes on. She gone to see the Lord.”

— Ruta Sepetys

“wouldn’t that person be even more amazing if, instead of telling the time, he or she built a clock that could tell the time…

— Jim Collins

All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

“As they were speaking, a dog that had been lying asleep raised his head and pricked up his ears. This was Argos, whom Odysseus…

— Homer

(...) We are standing in the flames reaching for the fight until the end; yesterday is dead and gone. Our voice will be heard…

— Angela Gossow

“If you’re going to make up stories about miracles and events that you are claiming really happened, you have to wait until all the…

— Mark Clark

at first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. what we should fear and…

— Gregory David Roberts