...but Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.

Every house where love abidesAnd friendship is a guest,Is surely home, and home, sweet homeFor there the heart can rest.

Henry Van Dyke

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

Muriel Spark

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

Mark Burnett

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Brian Eno

If women's role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.

Betty Friedan

My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that's really elaborate about werewolves and wolves.

Amanda Hocking

Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of any one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I as stedfastly believe.

Thomas Jefferson

Were kisses all the joys in bed,/One woman would another wed.

William Shakespeare

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.

Munshi Premchand

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Karl Menninger

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Henry Ward Beecher

Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Guillaume Apollinaire