Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

George Selden Thompson: (May 14, 1929 – December 5, 1989). American author. Known professionally as George Selden, he also wrote under the pseudonym Terry Andrews. He is best known for his 1961 book The Cricket in Times Square, which received a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1963 and a Newbery Honor. I guess I’m just… Lees verder George Selden

Carolyn Parkhurst: (born January 18, 1971, Manchester, New Hampshire). American author who has published five books. Her first, the 2003 best-seller The Dogs of Babel also known as Lorelei’s Secret in the UK, was a New York Times Notable Book and on The New York Times Best Seller list. It was September, and there was… Lees verder Carolyn Parkhurst

Fortunately excitement is one of the contagious things children carry. – Tatu Saloranta

The flower doesn’t dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and the best days give memories.

Jean Edmond Cyrus Rostand: (Paris, 30 October 1894 – Ville-d’Avray, 4 September 1977). French biologist, essayist, moral philosopher and historian of science. He was a member of the Académie française. The only freedom life grants us is to choose our remorse. God, that receptacle of our dreams.        

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: ( Hyde Park, New York, U.S., January 30, 1882 – Warm Springs, Georgia, U.S., April 12, 1945). Commonly known by his initials FDR, American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.… Lees verder Franklin D. Roosevelt

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

There are some people you’ll never see again. At least, not in the same way. Someone you haven’t even met yet is wondering what it’d be like to know someone like you. All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of living.