Banchetti Brunch Quotes & Sayings

Here's to a well-lived childhood . . . . Here's to Growing up Alaska. — Niki Breeser Tschirgi

The modern Presidents Club was founded by two men who by all rights should have loathed each other. There was Harry Truman, the humble haberdasher from Missouri, hurled into office in the spring of 1945, summoning to the White House Herbert Hoover, a failed Republican president who had left town thirteen years earlier as the most hated man in America, his motorcades pelted with rotten fruit. They were political enemies and temperamental opposites. Where Truman was authentic, amiable, if prone to eruptions of temper, Hoover could be cold, humorless, incapable of small talk but ferociously sure of the rightness of his cause. — Nancy Gibbs

Never keep your blessings all to yourself. Share them with those who need and you will receive more. — Timothy Pina

History has the cruel reality of a nightmare, and the grandeur of man consists in his making beautiful and lasting works out of the real substance of that nightmare. Or, to put it another way, it consists in transforming the nightmare into vision; in freeing ourselves from the shapeless horror of reality
if only for an instant
by means of creation. — Octavio Paz

Always Wear Flats and Have Your Friends Sleep Over: A Step-by-Step How-To Guide for Avoiding Getting Murdered — Mindy Kaling

Ipecac syrup of happiness. There Lowell would be. With Harlow. — Karen Joy Fowler

The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. — Patrick Ness

I hope I didn't upset you overmuch," the lieutenant said, coming up behind Hannah. She jumped and turned so quickly that her boot caught in the rug. She would have fallen had the lieutenant not taken hold of her. "There now. I do apologize. I didn't mean to sneak up on you." He smiled, and she liked the way his eyes seemed to twinkle. "That's quite all right. I was watching the children have fun with your men. They seem so carefree in these moments that it's hard to imagine the war is really going on at the same time. — Tracie Peterson

One thing about being a celebrity that I learned a long time ago was that I pretty much gave up the right to fair treatment. — DMX

We can go back to economic plans that are only designed to benefit the wealthiest among us, like Mitt Romney. Or we can keep moving forward with President Obama's vision for a growing economy that works for middle-class families in North Carolina and all across the country. For me, for North Carolina and for America, it's an easy choice. — Bev Perdue

God's people should plan for a voyage of a thousand years, but be prepared to abandon ship tonight. — Joseph Bayly