Ellen > Ellen's Quotes

“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
― Seamus Heaney, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney

“There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray, love, remember; and there is pansies, that’s for thoughts...
There’s fennel for you, and columbines; there’s rue for you, and here’s some for me; we may call it herb of grace o’ Sundays. O, you must wear your rue with a difference. There’s a daisy. I would give you some violets, but they wither’d all when my father died. They say he made a good end,— [Sings.]
“For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
Thought and afflictions, passion, hell itself, She turns to favor and to prettiness.
Song. And will a not come again? And will a not come again? No, no, he is dead; Go to thy deathbed; He never will come again. His beard was as white as snow, Flaxen was his poll. He is gone, he is gone, And we cast away moan. God ’a’ mercy on his soul.”
― William Shakespeare

“Curiouser and curiouser!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.”
― Richard Russo

“The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.”
― Tom Hanks

“If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.”
― Babaloo Mandel and Lowell Ganz

“Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.”
― Tom Hanks