Famous quotes containing the words sharp, statements, equivalent and/or existence:
“Everything I ever learned as a small boy came from my father. And I never found anything he ever told me to be wrong or worthless. The simple lessons he taught me are as sharp and clear in my mind, as if I had heard them only yesterday.”
—Philip Dunne (19081992)
“We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“When the apple is ripe it will fall.”
—Irish proverb.
An English equivalent to this might be, To everything there is a season.
“...care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light ...”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896)