Learn Through Quotations

“Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee.”

“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.”

“One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands - a kind of mad courage. ”

“Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people.”

“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. ”

“No painter's brush, nor poet's pen In justice to her fame Has ever reached half high enough To write a mother's name.”

“Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.”