Kawarthas Quotes & Sayings

I received a most amusing postcard the other morning. Unfortunately, it was not signed in a readable manner so I cannot answer it privately. But it comes from Moblie, Ala., and says: 'Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: You have not answered my question, the amount of Negro blood you have in your veins, if any.' I am afraid none of us know how much nor what kind of blood we have in our veins, since chemically it is all the same. And most of us cannot trace our ancestry more than a few generations. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The occupation of the stock-jobber yields no new or useful product; consequently having no product of his own to give in exchange, he has no revenue to subsist upon, but what he contrives to make out of the unskilfulness or ill-fortune of gamesters like himself. — Jean-Baptiste Say

I entered into Dawson's Creek to do a couple of episodes. They weren't sure about my role in the beginning, but then the chemistry kind of worked. — Sasha Alexander

I had to test your courage," the stranger said. "Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the Language of the World." The boy — Paulo Coelho

There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next. — Tony McCoy

You have become so good that every mistake you make has a spotlight on it. — Michael Sokolove

When I was growing up in the '70s and '80s, by the time you were 16, you were kind of expected to be an adult. By the time we were 16 and able to drive, certainly by 17 or 18 and into college, you just had very little interaction with your parents. — Joe Meno

We all want heroes and we all want somebody to look up to. — Stacie Orrico

Is his benevolent art meant to distract us from Prospero's absolutist exercise of authority over his subjects? — James Shapiro

Are. To have people cut you dead, or look at you with contempt, or have your friends and family turn their backs - You don't know what that's like. I don't want you to know what that's like. God damn it, I saw your face when you thought your uncles would get those bloody photographs! — K.J. Charles

Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general. — Kara Swisher

I don't know how romantic I am, but I only know one way to love...All the way. When I love, I risk my heart. All or nothing. — Kristin Hannah

I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late 1960s, they bought a cottage in a resort/trailer park in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, and we moved up there. I wrote a book about it in 2000 called 'Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country.' — Linwood Barclay

I'll leave a note to the rector of the cathedral and remind him that a woman gave him birth. Something for him to think about the next time he gives one of his sermons. I'm writing all this down. — Benjamin Alire Saenz