Haydar Ali Quotes & Sayings

She was too proud to eat her share of what little food we had. She told me she had. She swore she did. But every time I complained about being so hungry it hurt, she always offered me a nut or a partially rotted turnip, claiming she had just found two and already ate hers."

Rose sniffled and wiped her eyes again.

"After she was gone, I left my pride in that little hut and begged my way to Medford. I'd do anything. Once you've spent an afternoon chasing a fly around your house for dinner, once you've eaten spiders whole and drooled over worms found while burying your mother with your bare hands, there's nothing beneath you. All I wanted was to live-I'd forgotten everything else. A clod of dirt doesn't have dreams. A bit of broken stone doesn't understand hope. Each morning, all I wanted was to see the next dawn. — Michael J. Sullivan

I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known. — Michelangelo Antonioni

I understand the need for deception. I should; I live a life of it. Distasteful, perhaps. But necessary. — Virginia Boecker

The Only Thing I Know For Sure Is That I Know Nothing At All, For Sure — Socrates

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it. — P.T. Barnum

To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly. — Mike Huckabee

But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else. — Jodi Picoult

Your RELIGION does not make you a good person. Your BEHAVIOR does. — Tanya Masse

I always did my own thing. I'm not an outsider, but I have one foot in and one foot out. — Jill Kargman

When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake. — Sally Phillips

Some people must dream broadly and guilelessly, if only to balance those who never dream at all. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.