Batess Family Quotes & Sayings

The creek that was once a fishery for Atlantic salmon, a swimming hole for kids, and a focal point of community life now runs as brown as chocolate milk. Allied Chemical and its successors deny any role in the formation of the mudboils. They claim it was an act of God. What kind of God would that be? — Robin Wall Kimmerer

Anyone who knows me knows that I have never been shy about how important Ferran Adria has been in my life; he is a friend, a mentor, an inspiration. — Jose Andres

Armed with madness, I go on a long voyage. — Mary Butts

I don't use big words to show off because it's ostentatious. — Don Roff

No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others. — Ihara Saikaku

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself
it is the occurring which is difficult. — Stephen Leacock

Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre. — George R R Martin

Dorothea, with all her eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about marriage. She felt sure that she would have accepted the judicious Hooker, if she had been born in time to save him from that wretched mistake he made in matrimony; or John Milton when his blindness had come on; or any of the other great men whose odd habits it would have been glorious piety to endure; but an amiable handsome baronet, who said "Exactly" to her remarks even when she expressed uncertainty,
how could he affect her as a lover? The really delightful marriage must be that where your husband was a sort of father, and could teach you even Hebrew, if you wished it. — George Eliot

I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked. — Saint Teresa Of Avila

His warning amused her and revealed a hint of his unease in the upcoming meeting. How interesting that a man didn't always admire his own traits in another. — Grace Draven

Trusted you." "I know." His hand landed on mine and squeezed gently. "I was pissed - part of me — Jennifer L. Armentrout

All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at the expense of the majority. — James Fenimore Cooper

She was a stubborn woman who needed a good spanking, and not of the kinky variety. — Shelly Crane

Thirty
the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. — F Scott Fitzgerald