Bessiestown Quotes & Sayings

Society just doesn't care about young people anymore, even if we are the future. — Erin Gruwell

A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves how we got here, (which doesn't help with the question of how we get out of here), all of which rarely keeps us from finding ourselves in the next yard asking the same questions. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Heed not Mephistopheles, my children, lest you suffer eternal damnation. When he whispers in your ear, turn away your head and hearken instead to the angel on your shoulder. — Harry Segall

First - Recalled to Life I. The Period II. The Mail III. The Night Shadows IV. The Preparation V. The — Charles Dickens

When she passed on the ham the explanation was she was a vegetarian. Kat had asked why she was eating eggs, then, if she didn't eat meat. Smiling, she replied, I don't kill animals for food, but I am pro-choice. — James R Tuck

Forget me now, but remember me afterwards, when the bitter part is forgotten. This — Vladimir Nabokov

Love is in the eyes, and one woman knows when another woman is in love. — David Gemmell

Have you heard of this thing called the Internet?" CSI yells into the echoing abyss. — Anonymous

Winter Comes

Winter came too quick for me
it seems as though it was just spring.
Now summers gone and fall is here,
As the year behind just disappears. — Reed Abbitt Moore

A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad. — Sophocles

I think being on 'Weeds,' in general, makes it hard to think of me as Nemo anymore. — Alexander Gould

Scheele independently discovered eight elements - chlorine, fluorine, manganese, barium, molybdenum, tungsten, nitrogen, and oxygen - but received credit for none of them in his lifetime. He had an unfortunate habit of tasting every substance he worked with, as a way of familiarizing himself with its properties, and eventually the practice caught up with him. — Bill Bryson

Middle income families with children are Australia's new poor — Tony Abbott

We sense this, we aggregate that, we compress information to some new output, in the form of a sentence in a human language, a language called English. A language both very structured and very amorphous, as if it were a building made of soups. A most fuzzy mathematics. Possibly utterly useless. Possibly the reason why all these people have come to this pretty pass, and now lie asleep within us, dreaming. Their languages lie to them, systemically, and in their very designs. A liar species. What a thing, really. What an evolutionary dead end. — Kim Stanley Robinson