De Rondas Infantiles Quotes & Sayings

Laistrygonians. The monsters in the gym. They're a race of giant cannibals who live in the far north. Odysseus ran into them once, but I've never seen them as far south as New York before." "Laistry - I can't even say that. What would you call them in English?" She thought about it for a moment. "Canadians," she decided. — Rick Riordan

Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral. — Henry Ford

The true essence of beauty lies in the mysterious secret. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how? — R. Buckminster Fuller

Don't ask to borrow unless you intend to repay them. — Mark Romagna

I remember the first year after my second child was born, what I can remember of it at all, as a year of disarray, of overturned glasses of milk, of toys on the floor, of hours from sunrise to sunset that were horribly busy but filled with what, at the end of the day, seemed like absolutely nothing at all. What saved my sanity were books. What saved my sanity was disappearing, if only for fifteen minutes before I inevitably began to nod off in bed ... and as it was for me when I was young and surrounded by siblings, as it is today when I am surrounded by children, reading continues to provide an escape from a crowded house into an imaginary room of one's own. — Anna Quindlen

[ ... ] all of the good-intentioners who wanted to 'do something for the common people' were insignificant, because the 'common people' were able to do things for themselves, and highly likely to, as soon as they learned the fact. — Sinclair Lewis

The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor. — Harry S. Truman

I was not the popular kid in school. — Gabriel Iglesias

The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines. — Val McDermid

You want to play the winner? I called out to Ivy, lounging on a chair with her back to the wall as she pretended to read a magazine and watch us without being obvious about it. She'd put herself right in the sun, which told me she'd had a rough morning. She sat in the sun only when she was frustrated. — Kim Harrison