quotes about Last Day

“I wasn't a good waitress, but I was told that I was very nice and charming, so people liked me anyway.”

“George P. A. Healy; "I knew no one in France, I was utterly ignorant of the language, I did not know what I should do when once there; but I was not yet one-and-twenty, and I had a great stock of courage, of inexperience—which is sometimes a great help—and a strong desire to be my very best.”

“Kids haven't changed - you have.”

“It is correct that I overlooked the contamination of the party, not just now but also in the past.”

“You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds, but soon you'll cage me on your shelf. I'll never learn to be just me, first by myself.”

Source : Song: That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be, Album: Carly Simon, 1971

“Career mothers are not kidding anybody. Being a mom is the hardest job of all. You got to work to rest.”

“It was a bad one, the Winter of 1933. Wading home that night through flames of snow, my toes burning, my ears on fire, the snow swirling around me like a flock of angry nuns, I stopped dead in my tracks. The time had come to take stock. Fair weather or foul, certain forces in the world were at work trying to destroy me.”

Source : John Fante (2013). “1933 Was A Bad Year”, p.1, Canongate Books

“The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.”

Source : Ralph Hodgson (1961). “Collected Poems”, London, Macmillan

“Personally, I like one hand preacher curls with dumbbells. You don't have to do 100 pound dumbbells to get a burn. Heck I can do 35- 45 dumbbells and get something out of it. It's also great for guys that travel. It's the one piece of equipment that most hotels always have.”

“Weirdly, when I was in drama school my accent probably got stronger because of that sense of identity when you leave home and go to somewhere where there are loads of people from different places. Holding on to being Welsh and where I was from was a real crutch for me.”

Source : Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.