Eleri Ward Quotes & Sayings

The mind becomes like that on which it feeds. — Elton Trueblood

He grinned at me, and it was a boyish weary grin aiming for wicked, but too tired and worried to reach it. "I love you. You're mine. I'll kill any bastard who tries to take you from me. So, here's how it's going to go: Ellie comes first, but while we're taking care of her you can be as pig-headed as you want and pretend that we're broken up. I'll even let you. But I'm also going to be here, every day, showing you what you're missing. — Samantha Young

In my opinion, children should be seen and not heard. I'm an adult, so it follows that I should be heard and not seen. That's why I work exclusively over the intercom. — Lemony Snicket

Whether this will prove a blessing or a curse, will depend upon the use our people will make of the blessings which a gracious God hath bestowed on us. If they are wise, they will be great and happy. If they are of a contrary character, they will be miserable. Righteousness alone can exalt them as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this: and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself, an encourage it in others. — Patrick Henry

Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three hundred times ... — Marisha Pessl

Cries for justice are often the bitter laments of the vengeful. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too. — Kirstie Alley

The living of Laudomia frequent the house of the unborn to interrogate them: footsteps echo beneath the hollow domes; the questions are asked in silence; and it is always about themselves that the living ask, not about those who are to come. — Italo Calvino

Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability? — Henry Rollins

You've got to S-M-I-L-E
To be H-A-Double-P-Y — Shirley Temple Black

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago. — Tom Waits

Someone else always has to carry on the story. — J.R.R. Tolkien