Civill Quotes & Sayings

Let's vow to never become monsters that we are trying to protect ourselves from. — Stephanie Perkins

I went to the doctor recently and she actually prescribed that I go out for ten minutes a day, I'm so depleted on vitamin D. — Jorma Taccone

Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries. — Juvenal

We women have something of the mother in us that makes us rise above smaller matters when the mother-spirit is invoked; I felt this big, sorrowing man's head resting on me, as though it were that of the baby that some day may lie on my bosom, and I stroked his hair as though he were my own child. I never thought at the time how strange it all was. — Bram Stoker

God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state. — Roger Williams

Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child — Miguel Syjuco

Civill Wars of France made a million of Atheists, and 30000 Witches. — George Herbert

Man beset by anarchy, banditry, chaos and extinction must at last resort turn to that chamber of horrors, human enlightenment. For he has nowhere else to turn. — Robert Ardrey

There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night. — Thornton Wilder

If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which, crafty ambitious persons abuse the simple people, men would be much more fitted then they are for civill Obedience. — Thomas Hobbes

The really pop country stuff can sound a little bland because they put in strings and horns and all of that. — Joe Perry

If you can't tell a spoon from a ladle, then you're fat! — Demetri Martin

Prayer usually means praise, or surrender, acknowledging that you have run out of bullets. — Anne Lamott

The land list of 1625 specified that he had a 200 acre grant in this vicinity. Perhaps, he was established here well before the massacre. When the Indians descended on his place, he must have been away, for his wife stood her ground as she did later when the Colony officials sought to force her to vacate the now isolated post. It is reported that "Mistress Proctor, a proper, civill, modest gentlewoman ... ["fortified and lived in despite of the enemy"] till perforce the English officers forced her and all them with her to goe with them, or they would fire her house themselves, as the salvages did when they were gone.... — Charles E. Hatch