Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

#others

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #others




Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.


Anne Baxter


#devil #distracting #duty #home #idleness

How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline. "I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave." "Does she have a grave?" asked Coraline. "Oh yes," said the other mother. "I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back.


Neil Gaiman


#humor #mothers #humor

When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. And so, laughing and crying, we said good-bye to my grandmother. And when we said goodbye to one grandmother, we said good-bye to all of them. Each funeral was a funeral for all of us. We lived and died together. All of us laughed when they lowered my grandmother into the ground. And all of us laughed when they covered her with dirt. And all of us laughed as we walked and drove and rode our way back to our lonely, lonely houses.


Sherman Alexie


#grandmothers #death

That's your mom, right?" Pathik smiled. "She looks nicer than she did when she was dragging you away the other night.


Teri Hall


#mothers #pathik #teri-hall #the-line #humor

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.


Bell Hooks


#giving-others-space #love #manners #self-care #self-confidence

Clarity and focus doesn’t always come from God or inspirational quotes. Usually, it takes your mother to slap the reality back into you.


Shannon L. Alder


#humor #mothers #parents #humor

I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk.


Charles Schumer


#administration #because #bring #down #give

My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imagine the person you want to become someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do?


Barry Deutsch


#inspirational #mothers #role-models #imagination

Gray is not a substitute for black and white. You don’t bump into people without saying you’re sorry. When you shake hands, it’s supposed to mean something. If someone is in trouble, you reach out.


Jon M. Huntsman Sr.


#ethics #maturity #leadership

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.


Elizabeth Cady Stanton


#divine #fear #floods #flow #hesitate






back to top