Remnants Quotes (page 2)

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• snow
• water
• age

A rock was sticking out of the water, jagged and pointed, covered with moss--a remnant of the Ice Age. It had withstood the rains, the snows, the frost, the heat. It was afraid of no one. It did not need redemption, it had already been redeemed. Isaac Bashevis Singer

• thinking
• brain
• chance

I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage: but doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. William Shakespeare

• life
• childhood
• serious

Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. Jhumpa Lahiri

• today
• german
• reasons

There's more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly condemn Hitler's fascism but won't examine the other reasons why the Third Reich succeeded for a season. Suzanne Fields

• wishes
• men
• people

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well. Dwight D. Eisenhower

• blue
• blue sky
• humanity

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky. E. T. A. Hoffmann

• life
• death
• nature

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it. Charles Mackay

• life
• water
• cover

For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment. Richard Leakey

• time
• fighting
• war

The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time. Hamid Karzai

• morning
• door
• serviceable

I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else's door. Because I don't want the remnants. I don't want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning. Drew Barrymore

• time
• history
• some

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. Francis Bacon

• thinking
• military
• wellness

Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are. John Abizaid