Beeware Fairytale Quotes & Sayings

The battlefields where the dice of world history have been thrown can never be ordinary fields again and no god from a vanished civilization is so dead that he does not live on in his ruined temple. — Goran Schildt

By the time we're twenty, Hasina used to say, Giti and I, we'll have pushed out four, five kids each. But you, Laila, you'll make us two dummies proud. You're going to be somebody. I know one day I'll pick up a newspaper and find your picture on the front page. — Khaled Hosseini

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness. — Mary Wortley Montagu

In the past we assumed it was out of a woman's control" whether or not she had a child. "Now we think it's her choice, so we can blame her. — Lauren Sandler

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. — Samuel Johnson

The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in the air increased in number. From the edge of the sea came a ripple and whisper. Beyond these lifeless sounds the world was silent. Silent? It would be hard to convey the stillness of it. All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over. — H.G.Wells

Come with me, Douglass; I will defend you with my life. I want you for a special purpose. When I strike, the bees will begin to swarm, and I shall want you to help hive them. — John Brown

Does a fair trial necessarily amount to a fair outcome? — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling. — Abraham Lincoln

Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired geek in some traveling backwoods carnival - the freaks who bite the heads off chickens - but Limbaugh is a modernized geek who thinks he can bite the heads off of people. — Hunter S. Thompson