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Children do not wave as we drive out.
Like these graves ours may go unmarked.


Richard Hugo

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I'd be glad to do what we can to get a marker out there. We don't like unmarked graves, either.
MARK HANSEN We can learn from their heartache just as they learned from ours in Hugo.
CATHY HAYNES No permanence is ours; we are a wave
That flows to fit whatever form it finds
HERMANN HESSE The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will no...
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN It will go to agencies like ours. We help children and families in need, now for Katrina victims too...
GINGER GAITOR Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying...
MALALA YOUSAFZAI Hugo attacked me." Clary tried not to wince as the astringent liquid stung her wounds.
Hugo?" L...
CASSANDRA CLARE Ours not to reason why
Ours but to do and die.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON One must have the courage to give children up;
One must have the courage to give children up; <...
JACQUES CHARDONNE We do these jumps hundreds of times in the water before we go on the snow, so it's not as dangerous ...
HANNAH KEARNEY It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do wit...
JOYCE MAYNARD What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Inside" Children

Inside each of us are the children we were at each developmental stage. ...
S.A.R.K. We believe it may be because parents who perceive their neighborhoods as unsafe do not allow their c...
DR. JULIE LUMENG In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene.
VIRGIL You remember all those phrases about how 'these people' - Asians - don't value human lif...
NEIL SHEEHAN Let 's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We may not go as frequently as we do now. But the food is extremely worth driving for.
LINDA DOYLE Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you rea...
BRIAN SELZNICK At first cock-crow the ghosts must go
Back to their quiet graves below.
THEODOSIA GARRISON Goodbye, Room." I wave up at Skylight. "Say goodbye," I tell Ma. "Goodbye, Room."
Ma says it bu...
EMMA DONOGHUE She smiled again. "Do you like cat?" she said.
"Yes," said Richard. "I quite like cats."
A...
NEIL GAIMAN Yes it is,' said the Professor. 'Wait—' he motioned to Richard, who was about to go out again and ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Who cares what are you eating??
Who cares where are you?
Who cares what are you posting??<...
DEYTH BANGER Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.
DAN PEARCE What do I fear? Myself? There’s none else by.
Richard loves Richard; that is, I and I.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To Richard Gere: As you're a Buddhist, do you like Tibet or do you think gambling's wrong?
PAUL KAYE I like to be comfortable. If I go out, if it's a premiere, I'll put on a suit and look nice....
NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU I'm afraid to go out at night because it's too dark.
I'm afraid to try different food because I...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS The advantage of having many children is that one of them may not turn out like the rest.
VIKRANT PARSAI Your children are not your children.
They are sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young chi...
ALISON GOPNIK For it falls out
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it, but being...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There are other runs but none like ours. None do what we do.
ROBERT AUGHINBAUGH Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.
DEBORAH NORVILLE I think we go to our graves being a bit weird.
DAVID MACKENZIE Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself...
KAHLIL GIBRAN I am convinced that most people do not grow up. We find parking spaces and honor our credit cards. W...
MAYA ANGELOU Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus; and we petty men
Walk under h...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE this summit, is not about Hugo Chavez.
STEPHEN HADLEY What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.
EAZY-E Tear the tickets up, ... Do not go and do not allow your children to go.
ADRIAN RODGERS The community has a responsibility for our children. We do not want our children to grow up without ...
BEVERLY HOWARD We do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, always speak of sex, and who, like adole...
ORIANA FALLACI For a little place like ours, it exposes us to stuff we might not have had a chance to see, ... It's...
EDWARD DAVIS She walked to the rear door and took out a bobby pin from her pocket. Hugo watched as she fiddled wi...
BRIAN SELZNICK My brother was most loving. We are in distress about this. Doug Perrin should be in jail. What do th...
ANITA ERHARDT We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey....
MARY E. DEMUTH Fairy tales only happen in movies."
-George Melies

from The Invention of Hugo Cabre...
BRIAN SELZNICK These children can go out and have children of their own, but they don't have a good basis for paren...
DAWN DELUCA Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Walk beside...
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to...
ELISABETH ELLIOT As city people move out to these suburbs, the days of pure Republicanism are over. There is a tidal ...
DICK SIMPSON A goal of ours was to find out who lived in these apartments, so we knocked on the doors to find out...
LINDA HERRON Don’t forget:
Ruts aren’t that much different . . .
from graves.
JOHN-TALMAGE MATHIS As wave is driven by wave
And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,
So time flies on an...
OVID Here at last
We shall be free;
the Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not driv...
JOHN MILTON These are children who are in the 185th percent of the national poverty level. If it weren't for thi...
DEBBIE PLEIMLING Into the dark night
Resignedly I go,
I am not so afraid of the dark night
As the f...
STEVIE SMITH Our goal is not to put anyone out of business, ... We believe best practice is do not drink and driv...
CHUCK HURLEY We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosio...
GERMAINE GREER We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
MARIA WESTON CHAPMAN We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
MARIA WESTON CHAPMAN Children act on the words they hear.
May your words be gracious to the hearing of children.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Things rarely go exactly as we expect, but in the long run, they work out well for those who love Go...
ELIZABETH B. KNAUS O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Cara burst into a hearty laugh. She clapped Richard on the back as he walked passed. "I like her, Lo...
TERRY GOODKIND This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
T. C. BOYLE To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They'r...
PAMELA PAUL WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINK

Some people cower
and wince and shrink,
owing to fear of<...
PIET HEIN Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON We have these children spread out all over the district,
BRENDA HILL Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under h...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We have to be out there. We may not like everything they report. They may be putting out misinformat...
KAREN HUGHES We may not stay quick,
If we are weak or sage,
but a lot can squeak
As we start to...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES It's absolutely, completely paid for by the Lions. These children go there and do all the stuff they...
RICK REYNOLDS The mother-earth may not like
the way we preserve her...if any.
TOBA BETA As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of o...
BILLY JOEL We have young adults occupying these buildings, these are not kids. If anyone violates the rules, th...
JUDY DANIELS The land was ours before we were the lands.
She was our land more than a hundred years
Bef...
ROBERT FROST Data such as ours suggest we may need to rethink that traditional teaching. A better approach is to ...
DR. STEVEN BLOOM Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' p...
RICHARD BACH Oh sky, without me, do not change,
Oh moon, without me, do not shine;
Oh earth, without me...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI You may not remember the time you let me go first.
Or the time you dropped back to tell me it ...
BRIAN ANDREAS Fetter Lane,' read Edie.
"Fetters are chains. Like handcuffs, On your legs," said George.
...
CHARLIE FLETCHER We think ours accomplishes two different things: It protects children against secondhand smoke and c...
LEE HANEY When other children may have given up because of obstacles placed before them, these children did no...
DEBBIE RITCHIE We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We dri...
MAXIM GORKY It feels like we should do something," he said. "Like, send her off on a barge out to sea and set he...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN One woman from the Congo talked about children running wild in the bush, outcast because their paren...
LINDA GENTILE God said we had to go, so he provided the way in which we were able to do it. The glory is not ours,...
JENNY COFFEY If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... People are attracted to who we are more than what we do.
LORRIN L. LEE Jaques: God be wi' you. Let's meet as little as we can.
Orlando: I do desire we may be better s...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We have consistently pointed out that The Bahamas neither produces these substances, nor is it the u...
FRED MITCHELL It's not nearly as wholesale as it may look from the get-go. I like this line. We have a little vers...
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