Francellis Quotes & Sayings

In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it. — Mitch Daniels

We send these birthday wishes for your special day, one that brings a world of love and joy and happiness your way. — Susan Smith

Why do I need TV when I have forty-eight apartment windows to watch across the vacant lot, and a sliver of Lake Erie? I've seen history out this window. So much. I was four when we moved here in 1919. The fruit-sellers' carts and coal wagons were pulled down the street by horses back then. I used to stand just here and watch the coal brought up by the handsome lad from Groza, the village my parents were born in. Gibb Street was mainly Rumanians back then. It was "Adio" - "Good-bye"- in all the shops when you left. Then the Rumanians started leaving. They weren't the first, or the last. This has always been a working-class neighborhood. It's like a cheap hotel - you stay until you've got enough money to leave. — Paul Fleischman

A German merchant of the fifteenth century asked an eminent professor where he should send his son for a good business education. The professor responded that German universities would be sufficient to teach the boy addition and subtraction but he would have to go to Italy to learn multiplication and division. Before you smile indulgently, try multiplying or even just adding the Roman numerals CCLXIV, MDCCCIX, DCL, and MLXXXI without first translating them. — John Allen Paulos

If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it. — Levon Helm

Then my father's features hardened. "You can't expect my blessings on this disastrous mistake."
The words were directed at me, but Vlad responded.
"I wouldn't insult you by asking. We both know you disapprove and we both know I don't care. Leila's opinion is the only one that matters, and she said yes. — Jeaniene Frost

This is exactly what They expect you to do," Momma says.
They with a capital T.
There's Them and then there's Us.
Sometimes They look like Us and don't recognize They are Us. — Angie Thomas

If war, destruction and killings are the prerequisite to bring the peace, then I really don't want it. — Debasish Mridha

But it's really hard to eat good when you're traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant. — Nicole Polizzi

It's hard to put what it means into words. It's just a dream I had when I was a little kid. It's not every day [you] get to make your lifelong dream come true. The point of doing things in life is you pursue a goal, and you go after it, you reach it and you pick another one. But they're hard to attain. — Jonathan Horton

I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well. — Zoe Kazan

Paved with gold, no - but, yes, diamonds appear on the ground in the rain — Andrea Levy