Banpeiyu Quotes & Sayings

If we can't make the results of this experiment go — Martha Hall Kelly

Recipes are just descriptions of one person's take on one moment in time. They're not rules. — Mario Batali

But, being unable to decide yes, she decided no. — Gregory Maguire

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything. — Peggy Noonan

So, I mean to say, as for those who are proving their allegiance with what I would call sickening perseverance, and who are urging the president to brush away the constitution, those I would like to remind of a Russian proverb: Don't spit into the well, it'll come in handy once you're thirsty. — Vladimir Posner

My dad had an eighth grade education, and everything that he did in his life was just stuff that he went out and did - figured out what he needed to know and read. Very successful, a union contractor. — Mitch Pileggi

I have more concern for my nephew's welfare than for Lannister pride. — George R R Martin

We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris-
ing generation. I am an oldster myself and might be
expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have
been far more impressed by the bad manners of par-
ents to children than by those of children to parents.
Who has not been the embarrassed guest at family
meals where the father or mother treated their
grown-up offspring with an incivility which, offered
to any other young people, would simply have termi-
nated the acquaintance? Dogmatic assertions on mat-
ters which the children understand and their elders
don't, ruthless interruptions, flat contradictions,
ridicule of things the young take seriously some-
times of their religion insulting references to their
friends, all provide an easy answer to the question
"Why are they always out? Why do they like every
house better than their home?" Who does not prefer
civility to barbarism? — C.S. Lewis