Davenports Ri Quotes & Sayings

The Romans dominated Egypt for four hundred years, from the time of Augustus (30 BC to 395 AD). — Michael Tsarion

You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need. — John Lennon

We had the schools we wanted, in a way. Parents did not tend to show up at schools demanding that their kids be assigned more challenging reading or that their kindergarteners learn math while they still loved numbers. They did show up to complain about bad grades, however. And they came in droves, with video cameras and lawn chairs and full hearts, to watch their children play sports. — Amanda Ripley

I've wanted to write a ghost story for years, and my main aim was to write the most frightening ghost story that I could think of. — Michelle Paver

You discover you are old when your regrets replace your dreams. — Jeffrey Fry

During my cancer battle, "the more I lose of myself externally, the more I gain internally". — C.A.Nichols

Felicity was in the process of unpacking her valise on the bed. "Then let us make sure no one else makes that mistake," she said, pulling out ribbons and laces, a set of fancy hair combs and a few cosmetic pots. "Nanny Tasha always said a lady's age should be a mystery." Miranda closed her eyes. Truly, she was starting to wonder about Lord Langley's choice of nannies for his daughters. Most of what the girls repeated from their dear caretakers sounded more like the advice of an experienced Cyprian, not that of a doting governess for small, impressionable children. Felicity — Elizabeth Boyle

Vampires have been romanticized, and this is bringing it right back to being vampiric. I think there's something sexy and raw about that. — Oliver Jackson-Cohen

But two years into our parties, I surveyed the scene from the corner and wondered, Why are we having these parties? What were we making, coming together like that? We were trying to prove that we had everything because we had parties, but I began to feel like we had nothing but parties. If anyone from the future could look back on what we were building, I was sure they would say, That could only have been built by slaves. — Sheila Heti

The thing I want to see before I die is women achieving full equality in the world. I'm very passionate about injustice against women and there's too much of it in the world. In so many parts of the world, women are not regarded as worthy or equal to men. In parts of the world, women are bought and sold. — Cherie Blair

If he could hope for anything in that moment, it was to embrace the true soul of another person, and to know that he was embraced as well. — Tina St. John

For anybody who loves what they do, mediocrity is not enough. You don't have to be the best in the world, but you should be the best that you can be. — Travis Barker