Good Earth Foot Binding Quotes & Sayings

Mania for exact change can be off-putting for a traveler, what with getting yelled at by cashiers and cab drivers all day long for the crime of paying a sixteen-euro fare with a twenty-euro note. She said that it was nothing personal, that the French are naturally aggressive, especially with one another. Which I suppose is a form of equality, but not the sweet kind experienced by Lafayette. — Sarah Vowell

God needs your obedience — Sunday Adelaja

My friends who have babies can't do anything. You can't go out at night. Having a baby is like a DUI from the universe. — Natasha Leggero

We can get you a throne with snakes. I'll stand next to you and roar at anybody who fails to grovel. Fear Kate Daniels. She is a mighty and terrible ruler. Grendel can anoint the petitioners with his vomit. It'll be great ... — Ilona Andrews

The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies. — Noam Chomsky

Ask me what makes a champion runner, and I will tell you it helps to have the great good sense to choose your parents carefully. — Sebastian Coe

Protect him, yes, with my life; spare him of learning responsibility and to take care of himself, no. During — Ana Castillo

We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance. — Peter Diamandis

That's the thing about saying "sorry" or "excuse me" in this city. No one ever does. Or when we do apologize, we don't actually say it clearly. We just whisper the outline of excuse me or form the word sorry with our mouth, as if we expect people to lip-read. — Susane Colasanti

In the Negro Leagues, we'd play three games a day on the weekends. Then we'd ride the bus and travel to play the next day someplace else. You'd hang your shirt out the bus window to dry. — Ray Dandridge