Grandma Sea Turtle Quotes & Sayings

Though slow to quarrel, and for sport killing nothing that lived, they were doughty at bay, and at need could still handle arms. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I want to go about like the light-footed goats. — Johanna Spyri

The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest. — James Martineau

What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing. — Robert Fitzgerald

Write a page every single day, even if what you put on the page that day is no good - it's the only way to get better. — Emma Forrest

Land could not be minted! Land could only be lived upon, and loved. — Eleanor Catton

I don't think that a vote for Barack Obama is a symbolic thing. I think it's much more than that. It's not just a black man. It's not just a feel-good vote. It's the idea of electing someone who really does want to make a difference. — Aunjanue Ellis

There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason. — Alice Walker

I will admit to fucking a zucchini when I was in high school. For years I thought I was a vegesexual. — Daryl Gregory

I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new. — Norman McLaren

Then you compared a woman's love to Hell,
To barren land where water will not dwell,
And you compared it to a quenchless fire,
The more it burns the more is its desire
To burn up everything that burnt can be.
You say that just as worms destroy a tree
A wife destroys her husband and contrives,
As husbands know, the ruin of their lives. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Like the marriage contract you entered into, your divorce is a legal transaction. Treat it that way. Try not to let emotion, hurt, fear or anger dictate the circumstances of your discussions or negotiations. — Laura Wasser

I'm continually confronted with the human tendency to ignore or deny facts until the last possible instant. And then for several days after that, too." Attavio — John Scalzi