Boughtons Quotes & Sayings

Life is strewn with these miracles for which people who love can always hope. — Marcel Proust

In many Latin American countries, the historic ties of Catholic bishops with the political elite rendered them less sensitive to the conditions of the poor and especially of indigenous people. — Moises Naim

In college you can get away with things based off your athletic ability versus some of the other players. — Justin Cole

My grandmother didn't live to see us begin our lives in public service. But she probably would have thought it extraordinary that just two generations after she arrived in San Antonio, one grandson would be the mayor and the other would be on his way - the good people of San Antonio willing- to the United States Congress. — Julian Castro

[Censors] rake through the entrails of many an old good author, with a violation worse than any could be offered to his tomb. — John Milton

into darkness. The figures of the two men were — James B. Hendryx

There's no room for me in your world;
It's time I stopped pretending.
But nothing hurts me more
Than a friendship when it's ending. — Margo T. Rose

He was still on his feet, and before him was a man who stood in the path of...what? Of a great many things, his own dream of Gorhaut not least of all. Of what his home should be, in the eyes of the world, in the sight of Corannos, in his own soul. He had said this two nights ago, words very like this, King Daufridi of Valensa. He's been asked if he loved his country.
He did. He loved it with a heart that ached like an old man's fingers in rain, hurting for the Gorhaut of his own vision, a land worthy of the god who had chosen it, and of the honour of men. Not a place of scheming wiles, of a degraded, sensuously corrupt king, of people dispossessed of their lands by a cowardly treaty, or of ugly designs under the false, perverted aegis of Corannos for nothing less than annihilation here south of the mountains. — Guy Gavriel Kay

One would like to be loved, recognized, for what one is, and by everyone. But that is an adolescent desire. Sooner or later one must get old, agree to be judged, or sentenced, and to receive gifts of love ... as unmerited. Morality is of no help. Only, truth ... that is the uninterrupted seeking of it, the decision to tell it when one sees it, on every level, and to live it, gives a meaning, a direction to one's march. But in an era of bad faith, the man who does not want to renounce separating true from false is condemned to a certain kind of exile - Albert Camus — Robert Zaretsky

I don't deserve your forgiveness, but I'm going to do my best to make sure you never regret it. — Lisa Kessler

The fundamental axiom of economics is the human mercenary instinct. Without — Liu Cixin

We gave creation a chance. — Austin Wimberly

You didn't eat some days for two days you didn't eat properly. — Chingy

To laugh is proper to man. — Francois Rabelais

There was something that charmed her in the fact that her brother, the one true worldling in the whole tribe of Boughtons, seemed to be asking her for advice, or for wisdom, standing there in the sunlight with the wind hushing in the dusty lilacs of their childhood and laundry swaying on the lines where their school clothes used to hang. — Marilynne Robinson