Quotes from Martina Cole

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There is power in the blood, justice in the sword When that call it comes, I will be ready for war Alabama 3, 'Power In The Blood' Album: Power in the Blood, 2002

You prayed at the holy shrine Still the guru wouldn't receive you You've seen so many signs Still they call you a non-believer Alabama 3, 'Come On Home' Album: Power in the Blood, 2002

Oscar Wilde said that youth was wasted on the young, and he was right. When you were young you wasted not only your own life, but usually someone else's as well.

capacity of a gnat. She could see that it was better

One day, you'll wake up and thirty or forty years will have flown by.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child.' – 1 Corinthians 13:11 'The children of perdition are oft'times made instruments even of the greatest work.' – Ben Jonson, 1637-1673

Show me the company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.

It was family, blood, kin. It was what made the world go round and people strive to better themselves. At the end of the day, family was all you had.

The words were spoken quietly, not in anger, but they were laced with a malevolence that only a fool would choose to ignore.

Always fighting, arguing, and mouthing off to teachers and other pupils alike. But it was never her fault, it was always someone else's fault.

Why did people feel like this nowadays? Why were they so scared of chastising their kids, of making them listen to reason, explaining that what they were doing was wrong? Mary had not felt for a long time that she was in a position to offer her advice and she wondered when the children, the youngest members of the family, had suddenly acquired so much power that they were more or less laws unto themselves.

Live your life how you want. Before you know it you'll be old. Old as me. And when you get to my age you get a different perspective on life. Suddenly, every day seems just that little bit shorter. You feel the ache coming in your bones. You know that the best, most fruitful part of your life is over. I read once that when people get old and go senile, they go back to a time in their life when they were useful.

Blessed are they that mourn: For they shall be comforted. Matthew 5:4

get yourself a good bed and a good pair of shoes, because if you ain't in one, you are in the other.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy. Jean Anouilh

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ. Martin Luther, 1483-1546

surviving. One day she will have good times, another day bad times. It's called real life and she will have to get used to it.' Kevin hugged her.

Once things were said out loud, they could never be taken back. They were out there for ever.

there was just a game. They had killed someone and they thought it was funny. How had she allowed that to happen? How had

You can do more with a soft voice than a big stick?

into the ground in front of everyone on a visit earlier

life was just a series of events, that was all, and you had no real power over it whatsoever. You just thought you did.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. - Galatians, 6:7 He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath. - William Shakespeare King Lear (Act III, scene vi)