friendship quotes and sayings for girls

The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967



I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that.... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature. ~Abraham Cowley



I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher. ~Jonathan Swift



The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. ~Don Marquis



Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible. ~George Claude Lorimer



Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. ~Neil Gaiman



From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb



If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself and your dreams. ~Clive Barker



Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. ~Emily Kimbrough



Jesus saves... passes to Moses... shoots... scores! ~Author Unknown



In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. ~Robert Benchley



We must try not to sink beneath our anguish... but battle on. ~J.K. Rowling



In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of the state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state. ~Baron de Montesquieu



If God dropped acid, would he see people? ~Steven Wright



There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. ~Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory (thanks Harold)



We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Brevity is the soul of lingerie. ~Dorothy Parker



Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. ~Michel Eyquem de Montaigne



A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. ~Pam Brown