miss you so much quotes

Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat - glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning? ~Frank N. Ikard, North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, Houston, March 1968



What a wonderful thing is the mail, capable of conveying across continents a warm human hand-clasp. ~Author Unknown



Noise, crowding, pollution, and the sheer rush of our complex, modern society are rapidly becoming as oppressive to many individuals as the worst kind of political dictatorship. ~Thomas F. Eagleton



Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb



To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. ~Hopi Indian Saying



If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate. ~Diogenes the Cynic



An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. ~Aaron Levenstein



Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. ~Robert Neelly Bellah, Habits of the Heart, 1985



A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers. ~Pam Brown



A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



I don't know why people like the home run so much. A home run is over as soon as it starts.... The triple is the most exciting play of the game. A triple is like meeting a woman who excites you, spending the evening talking and getting more excited, then taking her home. It drags on and on. You're never sure how it's going to turn out. ~George Foster, 1978



Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth. ~Victoria Secunda



What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. ~Isaac Asimov



Having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting, it may not be logical but it is often true. ~Mr. Spock, Star Trek



A smile appeared upon her face as if she'd taken it directly from her handbag and pinned it there. ~Loma Chandler



Fooey! The porchlight is burnt out, and I can't see whether it's dark outside or not. ~Dave Beard



Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it. ~Author Unknown



I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 20