quotes and sayings about heartbreak

In summer, the song sings itself. ~William Carlos Williams



This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. ~Elmer Davis



Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes. ~Author Unknown



Puns are the gag hand buzzers of conversation. It hurts a bit but everyone gets a good laugh out of it. ~Grey Livingston



Instead of being born again, why not just grow up? ~Author Unknown



Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one. ~Nicholas Berdyaev



Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud. ~Gerald Vann



The funny thing about firemen is, night and day, they are always firemen. ~Gregory Widen, Backdraft



All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do. ~Author Unknown



A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist. If an omniscient, all-powerful Dad ignores your prayers, it's taken personally. Hear only silence long enough, and you start wondering about his power. His fairness. His very existence. But if a world mother doesn't reply, Her excuse is simple. She never claimed conceited omnipotence. She has countless others clinging to her apron strings, including myriad species unable to speak for themselves. To Her elder offspring She says - go raid the fridge. Go play outside. Go get a job. Or, better yet, lend me a hand. I have no time for idle whining. ~David Brin



Was there ever a grandparent, bushed after a day of minding noisy youngsters, who hasn't felt the Lord knew what He was doing when He gave little children to young people? ~Joe E. Wells



Good friends are like quilts - they age with you yet never lose their warmth. ~Author Unknown



Fort Yuma is probably the hottest place on earth. The thermometer stays at one hundred and twenty in the shade there all the time - except when it varies and goes higher. It is a U.S. military post, and its occupants get so used to the terrific heat that they suffer without it. There is a tradition... that a very, very wicked soldier died there, once, and of course, went straight to the hottest corner of perdition, - and the next day he telegraphed back for his blankets. ~Mark Twain, Roughing It, 1872, chapter LVI



We live in a fast-paced society. Walking slows us down. ~Robert Sweetgall



The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste. ~M.W. Harrison



Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir



A woman is as young as her knees. ~Mary Quant



Scientists should always state the opinions upon which their facts are based. ~Author Unknown



Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport. ~Philip Wrigley



My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. ~Errol Flynn