miss you quotes and sayings

The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, "Daddy, I need to ask you something," he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan. ~Garrison Keillor



A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. ~Samuel Butler



If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, on leaving psychotherapy



No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. ~George Bernard Shaw



The story of America's quest for freedom is inscribed on her history in the blood of her patriots. ~Randy Vader



To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



A commuter tie-up consists of you - and people who for some reason won't use public transit. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. ~Albert Einstein



Nothing weights lighter than a promise. ~German Proverb



It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen. ~Brigitte Bardot



The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has. ~Hamilton



Always act like you're wearing an invisible crown. ~Author Unknown



The regular course was Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with; and then the different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. ~Lewis Carroll



The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished. ~Author Unknown



Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. ~Peter De Vries



The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings. ~Henri Frederic Amiel



I am thankful for the taxes I pay because it means that I'm employed. ~Nancie J. Carmody



Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. ~Thor Heyerdahl, Fatu-Hiva



To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana



There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. ~Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory (thanks Harold)