"Mr. McCleod: And if there's anything I want you guys to take with you from this class, as you're abusing your bodies over break, is three things: the heart is the body's strongest muscle, that the brain has more cells in it than our galaxy has stars, and that the body is 72% water. So wherever you go over vacation, don't get too dehydrated."

-- Laura Kasischke

#Stars Quotes #Heart Quotes #Vacation Quotes

“I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.”
“All I got from van Looy and his cronies was ridicule, not one piece of help or advice. They were very unfair, I was still just a naÃ¯ve young boy really. With Peugeot, and especially with Tom [Simpson], it was completely different,”
“The loneliest people in the world are those who have exhausted pleasure and come away empty.”
“I've been singing since I was nine or ten.”
“The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and at the highest rate of interest.”
“Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses”

Source : Bayard Taylor (1875). “Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics”, p.162
“Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges.”
“Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.”

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