quotes about missing someone far away

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. ~Jack Handey


Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb


Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book


You can't write poetry on the computer. ~Quentin Tarantino


We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden


My parents told me, "Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving." I tell my daughters, "Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job." ~Thomas L. Friedman


Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit. ~Eli Khamarov, Lives of the Cognoscenti


If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place. ~Lord Halifax


The PC political correctness movement exists not in order to improve the well-being of those whose oppression it purports to combat. Rather, its purpose is to wrap its proponents in a kind of verbal comfort-blanket. ~Erik Kowal, as posted on wordwizard.com


On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars. ~Bruce Willis, on the difference between men and women


I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise. ~Chauncey Depew, also sometimes attributed in slightly different wording to Mark Twain


I try to leave out the parts that people skip. ~Elmore Leonard


By the time I have money to burn, my fire will have burnt out. ~Author Unknown


Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past. ~Jack London


Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. ~Louis Hector Berlioz


What about football? Is it a sport or a concussion? ~Jim Murray, Los Angeles Times


Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet. ~Daniel Webster


I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity. ~George Gallup I could smell myself awake with that coffee. ~Jaesse Tyler


God did it on purpose so that we may love you men instead of laughing at you. ~Mrs Patrick Campbell, in reply to a male acquaintance who asked why women seem to have no sense of humor


Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. ~James C. Dobson