Huckleburr Quotes & Sayings

If Cape wasn't your last name, what was your real one?" I asked, deathly curious now. "Ahhhh," he complained. "Pincas Huckleburr. — Tamora Pierce

The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is 'doing' his 'English prep' and has no notion that ethics, theology, and politics are all at stake. It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all. — C.S. Lewis

I think a lot of people compare their insides to other people's outsides. — Emma Stone

I trust everyone. I just don't trust the devil inside them. — Troy Kennedy Martin

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface . — Aldous Huxley

After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So-Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket. — James A. Baldwin

Antiquity and modernity are cut from the same cloth. That is to say, our sense of things being 'ancient' is produced - both historically and in practice - by the sense that we ourselves are 'modern'. — David Wengrow