29ish Quotes & Sayings

Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures. — Mahatma Gandhi

I'm not perfect, but those flaws make an interesting person. — Mary Frann

One who is bitter is seldom a winner. — Matshona Dhliwayo

We gathered up the kids and sat up on the hill. We had no time to get our chickens and no time to get our horses out of the corral. The water came in and smacked against the corral and broke the horses' legs. The drowned, and the chickens drowned. We sat on the hill and we cried. These are the stories we tell about the river," said [Ladona] Brave Bull Allard. The granddaughter of Chief Brave Bull, she told her story at a Missouri River symposium in Bismark, North Dakota, in the fall of 2003.

Before The Flood, her Standing Rock Sioux Tribe lived in a Garden of Eden, where nature provided all their needs. "In the summer, we would plant huge gardens because the land was fertile," she recalled. We had all our potatoes and squash. We canned all the berries that grew along the river. Now we don't have the plants and the medicine they used to make. — Bill Lambrecht

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden. — Gene Wolfe

Fifty-five thousand, five hundred and seventy-three dead from Bomber Command. Seven million German dead, including the five hundred thousand killed by the Allied bombing campaign. The sixty million dead overall of the Second World War, including eleven million murdered in the Holocaust. The sixteen million of the First World War, over four million in Vietnam, forty million to the Mongol conquests, three and a half million to the Hundred Years War, the fall of Rome took seven million, the Napoleonic Wars took four million, twenty million to the Taiping Rebellion. And so on and so on and so on, all the way back to the Garden when Cain killed Abel. — Kate Atkinson

I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name ... — Walt Whitman

It's always fifty-fifty, Pete. Like tossing a coin. Either I'm wrong, or I'm right, either you bring us back, or you don't, either Deputy Chiefs are what they say they are, or they're not. Always fifty-fifty. One thing or the other is always true. — Lee Child

I think it's kind of written in stone that men are supposed to have strong feelings about age, but I've never really thought about it. — Nico Tortorella

Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent,
Adversity then breeds the discontent. — Robert Herrick