quotes about missing someone far away

Childhood is a promise that is never kept. ~Ken Hill



Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. ~Bruce Catton



Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow. ~Benjamin Disraeli



Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb



Eggs cannot be unscrambled. ~American Proverb



A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay. ~Daniel Defoe



To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts. Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas. ~Ivars Peterson



But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature, so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth; but when it once is comprehended in exact methods, it may, perchance, be further polished, and illustrate and accommodated for use and practice, but it increaseth no more in bulk and substance. ~Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning



Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? ~Frank Scully



Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title. ~Virginia Woolf



Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



The happiest thing that can be said about democracy... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility. ~H.A. Overstreet



In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. ~Chinese Proverb



Crystallizing my feelings about the game, I find that squash is less frustrating than golf, less fickle than tennis. It is easier than badminton, cheaper than polo. It is better exercise than bowls, quicker than cricket, less boring than jogging, drier than swimming, safer than hang gliding. ~John Hopkins, Squash: A Joyful Game, 1980



A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty. ~Mark Twain



In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. ~Hugh Walpole



So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne



Burn rubber, not your soul, baby. ~Craig Fernandez and Reggie Bythewood, Biker Boyz



Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. ~Mignon McLaughlin