Duchess Of York Quotes & Sayings

It is environmental illiteracy and a complete lack of forward thinking to ignore the need to halt and then reverse population growth in the context of climate change, travel congestion, unaffordable housing, and resource depletion — Phil Harding

Grand Duchess Marie pronounced knitting a wonderful escape from life's problems: 'When the needles slip through the fingers, your imagination takes flight.' - new york times, may 12, 1936 — Barbara Levine

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe. — Brian Herbert

That kind of subtle manipulation always works best amidst a flurry of distractions. Washington's been doing it like that for decades. — Jim Butcher

Both the Queen and Prince Albert seemed to have spent far more time with their children, than one usually associates with Victorian life. They ate together, and walked, rode, played and painted together. And the fond parents were often present at bath time and in the nurseries that Prince Albert had designed close at hand. — Sarah Ferguson Duchess Of York

Leaders express feelings that other leaders sense. — John C. Maxwell

I wanted to preemptively make myself as available as possible, so it would be impossible for anyone to form the wrong impression and make me uncomfortable with the way they were digesting my music. — Owen Pallett

He couldn't stop the grin that spread across his face. Who knew Miss California would be good in a bar fight. — Codi Gary

By 2000, Americans had built almost twice as much retail space per citizen as any other country in the world: over nineteen square feet per person. Most of it was in malls. — Dolores Hayden

Typically in horror films the character just services the plot, and you really are just going from 'point a' to 'point b,' just so that you can end up at 'point c.' They are just sort of stick characters. That's just not interesting to me. — Kevin Williamson

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon. — Albert Einstein

At another time, on receiving a notification of the decease of a gentleman of the country-side, wherein not only the dignities of the dead man, but also the feudal and noble qualifications of all his relatives, spread over an entire page: "What a stout back Death has!" he exclaimed. "What a strange burden of titles is cheerfully imposed on him, and how much wit must men have, in order thus to press the tomb into the service of vanity! — Victor Hugo

If you want to know if a gentleman loves you," her mother said, "there is only one true way to be sure."
"It's in his kiss," her mother whispered. "It's all there, in his kiss. — Julia Quinn

Francis stared down at the Duchess of York's letter. He swallowed, then read aloud in a husky voice, "It was showed by John Sponer that King Richard, late mercifully reigning upon us, was through great treason piteously slain and murdered, to the great heaviness of this City."
As Margaret listened, the embittered grey eyes had softened, misted with sudden tears.
"My brother may lie in an untended grave," she said, "but he does not lack for an epitaph. — Sharon Kay Penman

I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line. — Neil Gaiman

To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable. — Edgar Allan Poe

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially. — Barbra Streisand

They stepped past the eunuch into a pillared courtyard overgrown in pale ivy. — George R R Martin