Quotes of: Last-year Keyword

To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for...

Scarlett

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

Sand and Foam

Better to leave with good memories than have the last ones be the embarrassing, smoking ruin of what once had been a fantastic friendship.

Solid Ground

...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.

Safe Haven

The 'will to peace' is the best answer that we can imagine to the 'will to war', which unfortunately seems as strong in this century as it was in the middle of the last.

Survivors: The A-bombed Trees of Hiroshima

Maybe your mind won't remember what I cooked last week, but your body will.

The School of Essential Ingredients

The last thing the hockey ball symbolized was Time itself, the unstoppability of it, the way we're chained to our bodies, which are chained to Time.

Middlesex

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

The Magus

When it comes to the heart and soul, only the Bible can bring true and lasting changes.

A Man After God's Own Heart

Oh, aye. I'm the devil all right. And last night, you were begging to step into the fire.

My False Heart

The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.

The Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent

A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.

Meaning and History: The Rizal Lectures

Smells, I think, may be the last thing on earth to die.

Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust: A Mother-Daughter Journey to Reclaim the Past

The corruption of religious leaders, who were expected to be the source of spiritual force and regeneration, is the last step in the of decay of a community.

Major Themes of the Qur'an

Though they only take a second to say, thank yous leave a warm feeling behind that can last for hours.

Molly Withers and the Golden Tree

The Red Cross, our last hope, had left us to starve.

Not My Turn to Die: Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia

Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last.

North of Beautiful

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

Nice Guys Finish Last

For Trisha The truth's in myth not fact, a story fragment or an act that lasts and stands for all: how bees made honey in a skull.

New and Selected Poems

It is time to end a story that began in sorrow and ordeal and has ended in a deep and lasting happiness. May it be so for others.

Nerilka's Story

Who's he seeing now then?" "No idea. They're like funfair goldfish; no point giving them names, they never last that long.

One Day