Jeremiahs Pick Quotes & Sayings

I doubt, dearest child, that you could ever marry a Frenchman. They're not dependable. I've never believed that they're serious Catholics." He — James A. Michener

You try your best to love the world despite obvious flaws in design and execution and you take care of whatever needy things present themselves to you during your passage through it. Otherwise you're worthless. — Charles Frazier

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper. — Robert Southey

Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need someone to teach us the art of learning with difficulty. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

God, he whom everyone knows, by name. — Jules Renard

There is nothing personal in the thunderclap of understanding. The lightning that releases it comes from outside oneself. — Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

I teach a lot of graduate creative writing classes, and on the first day, I like to go around the room and ask everybody what's the last book you've read that you really loved. And all of the women tend to give me chick lit titles. And to me, that's sort of disappointing because it's their only exposure to fiction somehow. — Cristina Henriquez

There are some old photographs from where if you take anything out, even a chicken or a little bird, the magic will disappear. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows. — James Anthony Froude

This country is not pro-American. It is United States property. — Juan Bosch

His touch does strange things to me. It makes me feel things. Things I'm not supposed to feel. Things I can't allow myself to feel. It's like his fingers are strumming my heartstrings, pulling, plucking, twisting, and I'm helpless. Completely and utterly helpless. — Beth Michele

Our relationship, our shared support, our consistency, is unrivaled by any other connection. — Sara Shandler

One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it. — Francesco Guicciardini

Once food gets into our fridges, larders and kitchens, ensuring that it gets used up before going off seems like an obvious thing to do - but it's alarming how many millions of tonnes are simply chucked because we don't keep track of the food we've spent our money on. — Tristram Stuart

They are so accustomed to the feeling that their senses are deadened to it; — Jean Webster