Diluvian Quotes & Sayings

I might, indeed, read history; but whenever I attempt to do so, I am to tell you the truth, driven from it by disgust - What is it, but a miserably mortifying detail of crimes and follies? - of the guilt of a few, and the sufferings of many, while almost every page offers an argument in favor of what I never will believe - that heaven created the human race only to destroy itself. — Charlotte Turner Smith

If you want to get an audience quiet, just say "abortion" and everybody shuts up and the tension in the room is spectacular. — Lewis Black

Sharon Shinn's Samaria is a world populated by refugees from a ravaged Earth, also many, many years in the future. — Alethea Kontis

God has always been in my heart and a part of my life and my familys lives. It is through Him that we draw our strength. — Michael Jackson

Though small was your allowance,
You saved a little store:
And those who save a little,
Shall get a plenty more. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I'm getting off the boat at Coconut Grove. It's six and you're not on the dock. I finish up, and start walking home, thinking you're tied up making dinner, and then I see you and Ant hurrying down the promenade. He is running and you're running after him. You're wearing a yellow dress. He jumps on me, and you stop shyly, and I say to you, come on, tadpole, show me what you got, and you laugh and run and jump into my arms. Such a good memory.
I love you, babe. — Paullina Simons

Sawing the head off a thunder god with a rusty hacksaw is not easy when you are eleven years old. — David Mitchell

I closed my mouth and looked across the water. Inches away, Denna did the same. I could feel the heat of her. She smelled like road dust, and honey, and the smell the air holds seconds before a heavy summer rain. — Patrick Rothfuss

What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs of antiquity at us, and gives it-self out as the wisdom of ages. — Edward Everett

The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals. — Leo Tolstoy