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  • I went to the store to buy a race car for my son's birthday, and the next thing I know I was working part time for the holidays. Then in February 2002, I started working on a plan to purchase the store.

    Holiday   Son   Race  
  • Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real.

  • A kiss can be like the world turning over. It can be like the tide of a dragon's dream washing through the unseen world that is hidden to mortal eyes but that nevertheless permeates our being. It can be hot and cold together, as vast as the heavens and yet specific to the pressure of hands and the parting of lips. It raised more intense feelings than I had expected, like being engulfed in a storm of lightning.

    Dream   Eye   Kissing  
  • I learned that time manages the most painful partings for us. One has only to set the date, buy the ticket, and let the earth, sun, and moon make their passages through the sky, until inexorable time carries us with it to the moment of parting.

    Moon   Sky   Earth  
    Jill Ker Conway (2011). “The Road from Coorain”, p.235, Vintage
  • Life is made up of meetings and partings. People come into your life everyday, you say good morning, you say good evening, some stay for a few minutes, some stay for a few months, some a year, others a whole lifetime. No matter who it is, you meet and then you part. I'm so glad I met you Elizabeth Egan; I'll thank my lucky stars for that. I think I wished for you all of my life" He whispered. "But now it is time for us to part.

    Cecelia Ahern (2007). “If You Could See Me Now”, Hyperion
  • Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.

    God   Self   Grace  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1905). “An Emerson Calendar”
  • For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time is to be reminded that we had forgotten well-nigh everything that the writer told us. Parting from the narrator and his narrative, we retain only a fading impression; and he, as it were, takes the book away from us and tucks it under his arm.

    Book   Narrators   Fading  
  • If we must part for ever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself withal, whilst my heart's breaking!

    "Best Plays".
  • Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid; had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.

    Wise   Home   Learning  
  • In many ways the culmination of [Judith Butler's] thinking to date, 'Parting Ways' will confirm Butler's place at the forefront of debate about one of the most anguished political crises of our times.

  • People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

  • If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come.

    George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2528, Delphi Classics
  • I didn't feel good about cutting out parts of very famous speeches, ... You think you somehow need all of it or you get none of it, but that's not true.

  • Departure should be sudden.

  • You have a real asset-price bubble in places like parts of California and the suburbs of Washington, D.C.

  • We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit!

    Daniel Webster (1843). “An Address Delivered at the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843”, p.59
  • Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness is the foe of volatility. Oft times insults that would pierce the wakeful simply thud against the sleepless and fatigued.

    Men   Effort   Veils  
    R. Scott Bakker (2012). “The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two”, p.127, The Overlook Press
  • Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.

    Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.611, Delphi Classics
  • Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person.

    Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”
  • Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.

    Time   Simple   Years  
    John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.2065, Delphi Classics
  • People got out of the way for Cam. He was like a hot Moses, parting a sea of drunk college students.

    College   Sea   People  
  • The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption.

    Sea   Eruption   Legends  
    Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line.

  • The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.

    Iris Murdoch (2013). “The Green Knight”, p.58, Open Road Media
  • Happiest time of youth and life, when love is first spoken and returned; when the dearest eyes are daily shining welcome, and the fondest lips never tire of whispering their sweet secrets; when the parting look that accompanies "Good night!" gives delightful warning of tomorrow.

    Love   Good Night   Sweet  
    William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Works: In Twenty-two Volumes. ¬The Virginians : a tale of the last century ; vol. II”, p.195
  • JedeTrennung gibt einenVorgeschmack desTodesund jedes Wiedersehen einenVorgeschmack der Auferstehung. Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection.

    1851 Parerga und Paralipomena, ch.26 (translated by R J Hollingdale).
  • Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

    FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Jan 11, 2011
  • Words are easy; lies as simple as parting your lips and breathing.

  • I must have Haley Joel Osment as my agent, because he only sees dead parts

    Agents   Haley   Parting  
  • Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it will your heart survive.

    Heart   Winter   Gone  
    Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: XIII”
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