Armorial Ancestry Quotes & Sayings

How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass. — Jennifer Michael Hecht

Incidentally, I have also learned a bit about the importance of avoiding feminine embarrassment ('Daddy,' wrote Sophia when she enrolled at the New School where I teach, 'people will ask "why is old Christopher Hitchens kissing that girl?"') and shall now cease and desist. — Christopher Hitchens

Whenever my teenage daughter comes down the stairs dressed like a tramp for her date, I think to myself: 'Damn, why won't her mother wear something like that ?' — David Henry

At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for strangers, to distinguish these occasions. — Patrick White

The ship records from this voyage showed that Levi sold 109 slaves for $28,200. In this shipment, there was the death of one male and one female slave, which was considered a low percentage of loss for slaving voyages. Also found in letters from James to Levi are instructions on revised tactics to avoid trouble with the law in both domestic and international waters.148 On August — Cynthia Mestad Johnson

The beginning of Book Three is the last one that I drew, where V's conducting the 1812 overture. — David Lloyd

locomotive, Special trucks — David McCullough

Think that it is most probable that Beddoes, pushed to desperation and believing himself to have been already betrayed, had revenged himself upon Hudson, and had fled from the country with as much money as he could lay his hands on. Those are the facts of the case, Doctor, and if they are of any use to your — Arthur Conan Doyle

To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder. — George Orwell

It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government. — Margaret Thatcher

By a routine that was not even secret, all letters were opened in transit. — George Orwell

I'm not much of a multitasker, and when I'm in productive mode, organizational things suffer. — James Alison

I happen to believe that health care is an imminent crisis. It is. — Eric Massa

A title or promotion does not make anyone a leader. Leadership emerges from the character, qualities, and capacities of the individual. Make no mistake about it, authentic leadership is personal. — George B. Bradt