Estranged Family Member Quotes & Sayings

It was possible, as far as they knew, that the western shore, which in fifty years' time would be christened New Jersey, was in fact the backdoor of China, that India, with its steamy profusion of gods and curries, lay just beyond those bluffs. — Russell Shorto

The food chain has victims at both ends: even rapists and murderers need someone to look down on, and kid killers will do nicely. — Michael Marshall

Love was like swallowing a cili padi whole. — Zen Cho

There must be people who pray even for those who never pray. — Victor Hugo

Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them. — P.N. Elrod

I'm not interested in playing the girl that's just there to make the guy, you know, give him a talking to. — Winona Ryder

Pa never told stories like Grandpa. Or treated the barn like family. Eli knew how Grandpa's own pa had built the barn by hand, hauling bluestone for the foundation behind a stubborn ox with horns as wide as a tractor. How the smell of the plank walls was like family and how you never washed your chore coat so the animals would smell that you were family, too. — Sandra Neil Wallace

I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary. — Lydia M. Child

Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country. — Rose Wilder Lane

Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana ... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society. — Dan Quayle

When giving to others do not linger on thoughts of a giving, what was given, or the one who has received. — Gautama Buddha

We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking. — Neville Brody

I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV. — Phillip Lim

Words are plastic these days. Small loans made to desperate people at exorbitant interest rates are called payday advances. A cheesy hotel paired with a seedy casino is called a resort. Any assemblage of frenetic images, bad music, and incoherent plot is called a major motion picture. — Dean Koontz

We can have anything we want on life, if we just help others to found what they need — Ebelsain Villegas