Badby Wood Quotes & Sayings

A Green Song
(to sing at the bottle-bank)
One green bottle,
Drop it in the bank.
Ten green bottles,
What a lot we drank.
Heaps of bottles
And yesterday's a blank.
But we'll save the planet,
Tinkle, tinkle, clank!
We've got bottles -
Nice, percussive trash.
Bags of bottles
Cleaned us out of cash.
Empty bottles,
We love to hear them smash
And we'll save the planet,
Tinkle, tinkle, crash! — Wendy Cope

I've had rough first trimesters. But once you get into the second, it's fine after that. — Megan Fox

You know how they say the path to hell is paved with good intentions? Well, maybe the path to heaven is paved with bad ones. — Jake Coburn

I've seen it all in Nevada, Kansas before that, and the War of Northern Aggression before that. People do all sorts of nasty things. And while I used to believe that there was something profoundly wrong about the human condition - sin passed on from the first man and that only the grace of God in Jesus Christ could make everything right, the standard explanation in churches Mormon to Methodist - it didn't take me long to learn that Christians and non-Christians, women and men, young and old were all capable of doing the worse things a human being might imagine, and then some.

From my upcoming novel, BATHHOUSE ROW, (available this fall). — Gregg Edwards Townsley

Tactics are manipulative. — Shiv Khera

He had reached an age where death no longer has the quality of ghastly surprise — F Scott Fitzgerald

I was raised Catholic, and then I kind of wandered away somewhere in high-school. I never got confirmed, which is a big deal. — Mike Birbiglia

Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never cast out. — Anonymous

Success is subjective. Your dream bank balance could be someone else's nightmare. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer. — Julia Leigh

There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer. — J.K. Rowling

Americans were attached to a vague cultural conservatism mostly because of the seemingly broad consensus around it, rather than by deep personal commitment. As that consensus, like most forms of consensus in our national life, has frayed, their attachment has weakened. T — Yuval Levin