How To Cite Paraphrased Quotes & Sayings

Way over on the railroad, Tomorrow all the tipping trucks will unload together, Every scrapbook stuck with glue, And I'll stand beside you, Beside you, child. — Van Morrison

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child. — Richard M. Nixon

We are very much like birds that have lived too long in a cage to which we return even when we get the chance to fly away. We have grown so accustomed to our faults that we can barely imagine what life would be like without them. The prospect of change makes us dizzy. — Matthieu Ricard

Then go faster. But don't go stupid. — John Jackson Miller

So, if consumers are like roaches, then marketers must forever be dreaming up new concoctions for industrial-strength Raid. — Naomi Klein

At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them. — Nazim Hikmet

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

I used to do a lot of plays in English, Hindi, and Urdu. I wanted to be an actor since I was three and a half. — Ajay Mehta

Tell me you like me," he whispered. He was so close I could almost imagine the feel of his lips as they moved, but not quite.
I pursed mine together, trying to stop my mischievous smile. "No," I replied.
He shook his head. "That's not an acceptable answer."
"Well, it's the one you're getting." I laughed and he did too, releasing me and flopping onto his back. — Lacey Weatherford

I can't imagine that my children would have fewer rights, and less access to the safest, best health care. — Cecile Richards

I am very lucky that my first film was fully commissioned by HBO. — Lauren Greenfield

In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is possible - as our experience in this good land shows - to exile ourselves from Creation, and to ally ourselves with the principle of destruction - which is, ultimately, the principle of nonentity. It is to be willing in general for being to not-be. And once we have allied ourselves with that principle, we are foolish to think that we can control the results. (pg. 303, The Gift of Good Land) — Wendell Berry

She would only make me take my seat if I didn't act calm and Swiss about it all. — Bill Bryson