quotes about missing someone far away

And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living! ~Tertullian



It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself. ~Joyce Maynard



A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels. ~Harry Lauder



You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. ~Author Unknown



Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. ~Nikita Khrushchev



A promise made is a debt unpaid. ~Robert Service



I like my coffee like my women: hot, strong, steamy. ~Author Unknown



When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog along to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten. ~Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance



If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower



In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment. ~Richard Wilkinson



If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things? ~George Clason



There is always death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year. ~Author Unknown



The lively Shadow-World of Song. ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller



I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?" ~Eve Merriam



He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. ~Epictetus



A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. ~Horace Mann



A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. ~Ansel Adams



Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth? ~Patrick Sky



A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. ~W.H. Auden



The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do. ~E.V. Lucas