Dejong Cardinals Quotes & Sayings

The tree is only as strong as its roots, and knowledge is the root of power. — Joe Abercrombie

Poetry is fact given over to imagery. — Rod McKuen

Suffering makes you deep. Travel makes you broad. In case I get my pick, I'd rather travel. — Judith Viorst

There is so much that the past can teach us.
-The Cripple — F. Sionil Jose

Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from a woman named Mrs. Cortez, that a four-room apartment in the Bramford had become available. — Ira Levin

I wore the Marc Jacobs dress, so I love Marc Jacobs. He has a vintage flair. But I've always worn a lot of vintage stuff, so it hasn't been a lot of designers. If I see something that I like, I just buy it. — Elle Fanning

A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable. — Don DeLillo

Few people ever kill for the right reasons, June. Most do it for the wrong reasons. I just hope you never have to be in either category. — Marie Lu

I'll believe I made it when I'm 100 years old, I'm still able to get work, and they're about to put me in a coffin, and I'll be like, 'Yeah, OK, it went all right.' But until then, I'm not saying it. — Timothy Simons

Outside the window there was snow falling, falling like movie snow, all the dreamy fluffy bits drifting around in the light of a single streetlamp . . . I watched the snow slow down, thin out. Then it was two or three pieces at a time, falling reversibly, wavering up and down and up again like they didn't know where to go. — Alexandra Kleeman

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

Are you New World or Old?'
'Sounds like a novel by Henry James.'
'Never read him.'
'Don't. But that was his question and he plumped for the Old. — Robertson Davies

I'm not even kind of a lesbian. — Oprah Winfrey

One speaker after another used to start his presentation coyly by saying, "Lady and gentlemen," or "Gentlemen and Mrs. Graham," always with slight giggles or snickers. — Katharine Graham

It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people. — E.B. White