Gran Crood Quotes & Sayings

My parents are worried, of course, but how can I feel sorry for them, since they made me this way and then deserted me? — Gillian Flynn

I know what it's like to be manipulated, Aya-la. And I know what it's like to be in danger. While your city was building you mansions to live in, my friends and I have been protecting this planet. We've spilled more blood than you have flowing in your veins. So don't try to make me feel guilty!
-Tally Youngblood, Extras — Scott Westerfeld

It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body. — Lasse Hallstrom

Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears ... — Jack Kerouac

To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego. — Albert Einstein

The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner. — Gloria Steinem

And as for myself, I tell you, I have had too much luck these last years. Do you believe that a man's luck can run forever? I know that it can't. For myself, I must somehow erect a bulwark against the ill fortune that is certain. — Gontran De Poncins

It is People that make Buildings not Buildings that make people — Gordon Owen IGO EBooks

Really there are very few adults these days who possess the mental and emotional self-sufficiency necessary for leading satisfactory existence in these remote parts.
When the day light lasts for only five or six hours, when the Never Silent - as the Norsemen called the wind - howls down the corries and the snow is lying so deep that even the deer are unable to reach the croft in search of food, then one learns what it means to be cut off from the outside world, and either one grows to accept and appreciate spells of complete isolation, or else the isolation begins to sap one's confidence and to terrify. — Rowena Farre

Whenever it feels uncomfortable to tell the truth, that's often the most important time to tell it. — Jennifer Lopez

I know more now than I did in the past about the process of democratization. I know more about the pitfalls. — Meles Zenawi