Quotes About Fragile

Your heart... it's a very fragile muscle. You have to take care of it, be old-fashioned about it.

When you are up there, feeling infinite space, the earth looks like a fragile planet against the immense universe. We are just another fleeting species, passing by. I do believe there is life elsewhere, and we are not alone. But not having found an alternate place for now, it is crucial to take care of the one place we do have.

Athletic ability can be taken away like that. It can all end in a heartbeat.

I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.

It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.

To build a friendship takes so much time and so many years. To ruin it, just seconds.

Maggie smiles at that and says, "Please don't upset her. She's fragile." "I'll be like cotton-candy kisses.

The only thing intact is a vellum scroll.

There is a canyon within a reasonable distance of nearly every school in the city," [Elaine Brooks] pointed out. What an exciting prospect, she said - a network of natural libraries for teaching children about the region's rare and fragile ecosystems - and about themselves.

In recognition that any good idea is a fragile thing, you have to give it a few minutes to breath—like a good red wine.

the names of flowers that open only once, shouted from balconies, shouted from rooftops, or muffled by rooftops, or whispered in sleep, or caught in the throat like a lump of meat.

his skin barely keeping him inside.

all this work to buttress self-esteem and happiness not only makes children less capable of moral action—more self-occupied, less able to invest in others, more fragile, and less able to stand up for important values—but more likely to fret about their attractiveness, competence, or importance to others, more prone to worry and unhappiness.

He had torn a ragged wound in it, laying open its moist white meat, but it wouldn't break, it wouldn't give, and it made the children laugh each time the shovel bounced and rang in his hands. The delicate noise of their laughter, the look of their tulip-soft skin and of their two sunny skulls, as fragile as eggshell, made a terrible contrast to the feel of biting steel and shuddering pulp, and it was his sense of this that made his eyes commit a distortion of truth.

If I had learned anything about life and love, it was that they were tenuous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential-but not at the cost of wasting your life.

Their smiles were cracking. Glass is brittle.

It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.

He was afraid that his body would come loose, all his bones spilling out like a building collapsing, like a picket fence clattering apart.

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night.

Love is a delicate thing that needs to be cosseted and protected. Love is not robust and love is not unyielding. Love can crumble under a few harsh words, or be tossed away with a handful of careless actions. Love isn't a steadfast dog at all; love is more like a pygmy mouse lemur.

The reputation of a girl ... is a delicate thing. Like a mynah bird in your hands. slacken your grip and away it flies.

father said all good things in life were fragile and easily lost—he

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