1821 Texas Quotes & Sayings

All men, reaching back to Adam in the Garden, plead Ignorance as their defence; when, if we were but honest, we would admit that the apple was hedged with every warning imaginable. So I too fell; perhaps all sins are not causes but effects, being the result of that first sin, Boredom. — K.W. Jeter

That was really good driving," Maddy told her.
"Yeah, thanks."
"Here, baby. Here." Pilar turned her, held her when the shakes came. And, holding her, reached
out for Maddy. "Here, baby," she said again. Maddy pressed herself into that circle of comfort and let
the tears come. — Nora Roberts

Women could compress a great deal into one look. — Robert Jordan

Chris reached for the button to raise the window, as if a thin layer of glass could ever protect him from Beckett. — Debra Anastasia

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. — Robert Louis Stevenson

When your dreams get fulfilled in dreams, wouldn't you rather skip reality? — Nico J. Genes

I tried to balance the sufferings of the miserable victim against the moral degradation of Memphis, and the truth flashed over me that in large measure the race question involves the saving of black America's body and white America's soul. — Philip Dray

You were given a task by the Lord and Lady of High Heaven themselves. Quit now, and forsake all Grens who care for peace. Rise, and create a legend that will live on longer than you. Make your choice, Nicholes Merman. Rise or fall. — Ethan Melman

Happiness is so simple in life:
If I laugh then you are laughing too. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that's been going on since the Second World War. — Noam Chomsky

But if you weren't a Keeper ... if you lost someone and you thought they were gone forever, and then you learned you could get them back, you'd be there with the rest of them, clawing at the walls to get through. — Victoria Schwab

There was, of course, nowhere better in the world to be than New York City. This fact was the foundation of her family's satisfaction with itself, the platform from which all else could be ridiculed, the collateral of adult sophistication that bought them the right to behave like children. — Jonathan Franzen

The United States happens to be the only state in the world that has been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism. — Noam Chomsky

Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus. — Steven Van Zandt