Bonus Kids Quotes & Sayings

I am an old man who will live until I die, Anselmo said. — Ernest Hemingway,

Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ran from 1989 to 2011. Under his successor, Rahm Emanuel, the trend has continued apace. For Rahm's investment banker buddies, the trend has been a boon. For citizens? Not so much. — Rick Perlstein

I'll make Goyle do lines, it'll kill him, he hates writing," said Ron happily. He lowered his voice to Goyle's low grunt and, screwing up his face in a look of pained concentration, mimed writing in midair. "I ... must ... not ... look ... like ... a ... baboon's ... backside. — J.K. Rowling

Like a tourist, I watched the range of human possibility on display, trying to trace out my future in the lives of the people I saw, looking for some opening through which I could reenter. — Barack Obama

The most gratifying part of my job is helping people. It always makes your heart light and makes you feel much better. — Cameron West

Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself. — John Sununu

Blood diamonds, she thought. That's exactly what these are. She felt almost as superstitious as the Africans now, as if the pink diamonds themselves had somehow caused all this hardship and death. — Mike Wells

in police work ninety-nine percent of the effort is routine, unspectacular enquiry, checking and double-checking, laboriously building up a web of parts until the parts become a whole, the whole becomes a net, and the net finally encloses the criminal with a case that will not just make headlines but stand up in court. He — Frederick Forsyth

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst. — Mark Twain

You write a lot of books; you hope you get better. — Alan Furst

I've pressed so
far away from
my desire that
if you asked
me what I
want I would,
accepting the harmonious
completion of the
drift, say annihilation,
probably. — A.R. Ammons

The Golden stock ... ," Mustang murmurs. "How can you be so cold?"
"Little girl," Antonia sighs, "Gold is a cold metal. — Pierce Brown

Your yearning for God must supersede all other desires. It must be like a gnawing hunger and a burning thirst. — Billy Graham

We've given more resources. On housing, we are now establishing a regional housing pot. — John Prescott

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music. — Willie Dixon