taylor swift quotes about life

And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships. ~Victoria Secunda



Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters. ~Anne Hollander



People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery. ~Aristide Briand



Grief is itself a medicine. ~William Cowper, Charity



Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows. ~Edmund Burke



If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. ~Toni Morrison



The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb



When a child is born, so are grandmothers. ~Judith Levy



I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts. ~Graham Kerr



If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. ~Napoleon Bonaparte



Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb



You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course. ~Lee Trevino



What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. ~Samuel Johnson



Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. ~Hosea Ballou



People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around. ~Author Unknown



There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. ~John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994



I had removed my patent leather shoes after a while, for they foundered badly in the sand. It pleased me to think they would be perched there on the silver log, pointing out to sea, like a sort of soul-compass, after I was dead. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 12



That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. ~Horace



Television: chewing gum for the eyes. ~Frank Lloyd Wright