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Quotes About Promise

He's not my dad," Kaira said. "Just because he married my— As soon as I turn eighteen I'm firing his ass! Then I'll call you.
~ Louis Sachar
Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.
~ Louisa May Alcott
You've got me, anyhow. I'm not good for much, I know, but I'll stand by you, Jo, all the days of my life. Upon my word I will! and Laurie meant what he said.
~ Louisa May Alcott
what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.
~ Louisa May Alcott
There is always light behind the clouds
~ Louisa May Alcott
Don't let that young giant come near me, he worries me worse than mosquitoes, whispered the old lady to Amy, as the rooms filled and Laurie's black head towered above the rest. He has promised to be very good today, and he can be perfectly elegant if he likes, returned Amy, gliding away to war Hergules to beware of the dragon, which warning cased him to haunt the old lady with a devotion that nearly distracted her.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Wait for me, my friend. I may be a little late, but I shall surely come.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I know I'll get my music some time, if I'm good.
~ Louisa May Alcott
When the sun peeped into the girl's room early next morning, to promise them a fine day, he saw a comical sight... This funny spectacle appeared to amuse the sun, for he burst out with such radiance that Jo woke up, and roused all her sisters by a hearty laugh at Amy's ornament.
~ Louisa May Alcott
And holding the little paper fast, as if it were a promise yet to be fulfilled, Jo laid her head down on a comfortable rag bag, and cried, as if in opposition to the rain pattering on the roof.
~ Louisa May Alcott
El viento silbaba por encima de las abatidas colinas, el agua caía en forma de lúgubre llovizna, y el ocaso se cernió sobre el paisaje. Pero los ojos del hombre tranquilo penetraban la niebla con la misma calma que si tuviera ante sí un radiante arco de promesas extendiéndose por la grisura del cielo.
~ Louisa May Alcott
de qualquer modo, você tem a mim. não sirvo para muita coisa, eu sei, mas ficarei a seu lado, jo, todos os dias de minha vida. dou minha palavra que ficarei.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I am not a young lady, and it's only a step. Take care of yourself, won't you? Yes, but you will come again, I hope? If you promise to come and see us after you are well. I will. Good night, Laurie! Good night, Jo, good night! When all the afternoon's adventures had been told, the family felt inclined to go visiting in a body
~ Louisa May Alcott
I hold his name close as my own blood and I will never let it out. I only spoke it that once so he would know he was alive.
~ Louise Erdrich
All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.
~ Louise Erdrich
Higher Power makes promises we all know they can't back up, but anybody ever go and slap an old malpractice suit on God? Or the U.S. government? No they don't. Faith might be stupid, but it gets us through.
~ Louise Erdrich
In a question of veracity between U.S. Grant and Andrew Johnson, between a soldier whose honor is as untarnished as the sun, and a President who has betrayed every friend, and broken every promise, the country will not hesitate," wrote the New York Tribune.
~ Ron Chernow
The world is ripe, and we'll pluck it like an apple from a tree.
~ Ron Rash
In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is.
~ Ronald Reagan
the Polish people be allowed to have a voice in the kind of govt. they want. Under the Yalta Pact the Soviets agreed they & others would be allowed to do this. The Soviets have never honored that promise.
~ Ronald Reagan
In times of war or crisis, power is easily stolen from the many by the few on a promise of security. The more elusive the or imaginary the foe, the better for manufacturing consent.
~ Ronald Wright
In times of war or crisis, power is easily stolen from the many by the few on a promise of security. The more elusive or imaginary the foe, the better for manufacturing consent.
~ Ronald Wright
Living, now, had become not simple existence that one took for granted, but a bonus, a gift, with every day that lay ahead an experience to be savoured. Time did not last forever. I shall not waste a single moment, she promised herself. She had never felt so strong, so optimistic. As though she was young once more, starting out, and something marvellous was just about to happen.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
Umut garip bir al??kanl?kt?r. Bir tür uyuÅŸturucudur. B?rakt???m?za dair yeminler ederiz, ama o da ne? Bir gün gelir, yine kölesi oluruz.
~ Rose Tremain