Landowning Family Quotes & Sayings

I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going. — Alan King

The average buyer in bookshop spends 8 seconds on the front cover and 15 seconds on the back cover before deciding whether to purchase the book or not. On average, he does not get past page 18. See? The odds are stacked against us writers! — Ashwin Sanghi

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad! — Richard P. Feynman

Determination is the fuel that propels one to higher virtues. — Aaidh Ibn Abdullah Al-Qarni

People say that your life flashes before your eyes before you die, but they're wrong. It's not your life that passes before you, it's the regrets that do. — Elise Valenti

An oracle must cross the moat of logic and reach the inner poet that resides, perhaps repressed but nonetheless alive, within all of us. The I Ching helps us tune into our feeling consciousness through imagery and metaphor, and this, we find, is the path of clarity, of both strength and tolerance, of gentle humor, and of love. — Carol K. Anthony

Set in a nameless colonial country, in an unspecified era, Katie Kitamura's second novel tracks the fortunes of a landowning family during the first waves of civil unrest. — Sarah Hall

Well, we can't leave anyone behind just because they are sex workers or they are needle users, intravenous drug users, prostitutes. — Elton John

I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through here, so many cultures, and so many people merging into the central community of New York City. This is the hub of America. — Dhani Jones

I'm not smart, but I like to observe.
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why, — William Hazlitt

Jeff Hudson started me on a path that was key, and as life goes on it's become a mantra to me. It's that you're born into a family, your family of origin, and you're stuck with it. Once I recognized that, it freed me up to have a different kind of family: a family of choice. The people I surround myself with, spend holidays with, look to for support and comfort and validation -- that's my family of choice. — Bob Mould

If you are guided toward a faith, use it as a stepping stone to God, not as a barrier between yourself and God's other children or as a tower to hold you aloft from others. If you are not guided toward a faith (or even if you are) seek God in the silence - seek within. — Peace Pilgrim

Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective. — Janet Frame

By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not like that at all. — Claire Tomalin

When you want to say something very important, tell it with a short sentence! There is no time for long stories! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Tell my dad ... that I've been hiding his favorite cape in a closet on the twenty-ninth floor. But don't tell him the door is rigged with gulon gas. Let him find that out on his own. — Shannon Messenger