Dignam My People Quotes & Sayings

I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break. — Malorie Blackman

It's exciting to fit somewhere when I have felt out of place everywhere for so long. — Rachel Friedman

The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt, than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts. — Ezra Pound

Society reproduces itself antagonistically. — Rudolf J. Siebert

The happiest people are not the ones with the best or the most things, but those who most appreciate what they have. — Oliver Gaspirtz

[in response to a jealous comment made by Amber] PJ's mouth snarls open. If you aren't going to play nice, my thorny little bush, I think you should return to the dirty playground that you crawled from. — Laurie Faria Stolarz

I was once on a BBC current-affairs show and the sneering host produced a Solzhenitsyn quote designed to demonstrate that my view of American pre-eminence was all hooey, and rounded it out with a snide "I take it you've heard of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn?" "Oh, sure," I said. "We have the same piano tuner." Which we did. — Mark Steyn

Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep — W. H. Auden

I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment. — Hosea Ballou