Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Quotes...

Just a few of my favourite quotes. =)

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief... and unspeakable love.
-Washington Irving-
American poet, essayist and author.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven in the lives of others.
-Pericles-
Athenian statesman, orator and general

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
-John F. Kennedy-

What other words, we may almost ask, are memorable and worthy to be repeated than those which love inspired? It is wonderful that they were ever uttered. They are few and rare indeed.
-Henry David Thoreau-
In "A Week on the Concord and Meirimack Rivers"

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.
- Anthony Brandt-
Author

The bitterest tears are shed over graves are of words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe-
American author and abolitionist

2 comments:

kohila said...

i love the first one =) and the 4th.

christina said...

The first one's beautiful. =) The 4th meaningful. Hehe. My obsession with quotes. =)