Doggedly Devoted Quotes & Sayings

Slavery was a web of relationships, and if people knew how thick the whole business was, they would not make fun of people like Harriet Tubman. They would understand how intelligent she was and how sharp. — James McBride

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them. — Richard Branson

I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room! — Nellie McKay

Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too. — Susanne Bier

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained. — Frank Herbert

Deviance is in the eye of the beholder — Anonymous

We had to take off our shoes after school to save wear on the soles. — Alex Spanos

I own my past, it hasn't been grande'
But it's had some pretty great moments.
I own my movements of now, it isn't what I've dreamt, but I'm closer than I was before.
I own my future, it is going to test me,
But I trust I have the strength to pull through.
Life isn't what happens to us, but what we choose to become. — Nikki Rowe

After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident. — J.G. Ballard

(Mam) ignorant as a thistle, married to a drunk and pushing out baby after baby, each of which had to be clothed and fed until it grew up and left, or died. — Meg Rosoff

Corporate America doesn't really have an interest in Formula One because there is nothing American in it at this point. It is European and all made by Europeans. Until that changes, the interest isn't going to be at the level it needs to be. — Alexander Rossi