Eleanor Farjeon Quotes

Ecstasy cannot be constant, or it would kill.

Eleanor Farjeon

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• We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Time
  • Why
  • Song

• I was a good sight reader and I could sing two or three of these jingles a day. An orchestra would come in for half an hour, and then the singers would come in and knock 'em out, and go on to the next one. I was the voice of Budweiser and Almond Joy.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Good
  • Day
  • Joy

• Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Mother

• I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Mom

• Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Kids
  • Joy
  • Warfare

• I don't know if it is of any joy to humiliate people. No matter what, whether you're high in life or low in life, humiliation and such kinds of things should just be ignored. I don't derive any pleasure from running people down.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Life
  • High

• I am in total ecstasy with where my life is now.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Life
  • Ecstasy

• My greatest joy is seeing parents and kids playing Disney 'Epic Mickey' together, handing the controllers back and forth, helping each other out.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Kids
  • Together
  • Parents

• 'If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Joy
  • Selfish

• I ain't a killer, but don't push me Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin' pussy.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Joy
  • Revenge
  • Killer

• You are my pride and joyAnd I just love you, little darlin'Like a baby boy loves his toyYou've got kisses sweeter than honeyAnd I work every day to give you all I knowAnd that's why you're my pride and joy.

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • Work
  • Why
  • Joy

• There 's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.

  

  Lord Byron
  • World
  • Joy

• Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;Or at least, faith unbelief.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Hope
  • Faith
  • Joy

• It happens that all those who have something of mine, painting, mobile, or static statue, say that it makes them very happy. For example, children adore mobile statues and understand their meaning immediately. I have seen children, here in France, in America or in Great Britain, run and shout with joy in my exhibitions. They like it instinctively.

  

  Alexander Calder
  • Great
  • Children
  • America

• I was looking for joy Yes, yes, yes, yes When I was little bitty boy If I would have known what makes a world go 'round I would have known what goes up must come down If you love me like I love you Mademoiselle, je vous aime, voulez-vous?

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Up
  • World
  • Joy

• Why, then, if expensive things cannot bring us remarkable joy, are we so powerfully drawn to them?

  

  Alain de Botton
  • Why
  • Joy

• Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • Music
  • Joy

• Fruit in the morning is such a big joy for me. I like to grab fruit from the tree, et cetera. I don't feel that way with vegetables. Fruit, you can eat it at any time, any moment, in any type of situation. I like everything about fruit; I like the color.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Time
  • Joy
  • Morning

• God makes it really clear that society and civilization is really held together by the glue of families... When a man and a woman come together and say 'I do,' they are committing for a lifetime to love each other and to model what love is and what forgiveness is and what joy is to their kids.

  

  Kirk Cameron
  • God
  • Kids
  • Together

• Got to build that business base and then you can fund all the things people want: education, health care, strong law enforcement, roads, bridges, infrastructure - all those things flow from that economic base.

  

  John Hoeven
  • People
  • Business
  • Strong

• Coming out of the 2016 election, there was a few things that became really clear. One, that black people deserve to have vehicles that represent the breadth of our interests. Two, that we really need to do a better job of being able to communicate what conditions and experiences our communities are facing.

  

  Alicia Garza
  • People
  • Job
  • Black

• What's good for the United States is good for the New York Stock Exchange. But what's good for the New York Stock Exchange might not be good for the United States.

  

  William McChesney Martin
  • Good
  • New York
  • Stock

• Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.

  

  Marissa Mayer
  • Good
  • Experience

• Ecstasy cannot be constant, or it would kill.

  

  Eleanor Farjeon
  • Joy
  • Constant
  • Ecstasy