Bercow Speaker Quotes & Sayings

God created a universe where each object is dependent on the other. Nobody is independent. At least, human beings are not. — Girdhar Joshi

I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that. — John Bercow

If you asked me if I'd rather be Speaker or a very senior minister, I'd say Speaker. — John Bercow

Once women invented farming, and began to keep and breed animals, they discovered the crucial function of the rooster and the henhouse. Fathers suddenly gained a function, and could do what only women had been able to do for all those millions of years
point at a child and say, "That is my son," "That is my daughter." Patriarchy quickly followed, beginning about five thousand years ago; a very short time in the development of our species, but covering all of recorded history. — Frank Pittman

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. — George Orwell

I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics. — John Bercow

Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry.
Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition.
Now it can build castles and cities and whole ice continents with your breath's vapor.
In a few blinks you can almost see the winter fairies moving in ...
But first, you hear the crackle of their wings. — Vera Nazarian

I guess you always regret the choices you didn't make, because you imagine that they would have been better choices, that's the thing. But in the end, you just have to choose something and get on with it. Because if you hedge your bets forever, well, you end up with nothing, don't you? — Nick Alexander

We're gonna put $456 million to go to an island of 50 people? You know ... The bridge to nowhere. And this is right after Katrina happened. And so I offer an amendment to take that money from Alaska and repair the stuff in Louisiana. — Tom Coburn

Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself. — Pat Conroy

I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings. — River Phoenix

The longer one doesn't write, the more difficult it is to communicate. — Indira Gandhi

Everyone I knew hated Monday mornings, but I never minded them. — Jojo Moyes

I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page. — E.L. Doctorow