Longshanks Family Tree Quotes & Sayings

I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down. — Zooey Deschanel

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. — Wallace Stevens

Nor can We predict happier times for religion and government from the plans of those who desire vehemently to separate the Church from the state, and to break the mutual concord between temporal authority and the priesthood. It is certain that that concord which always was favorable and beneficial for the sacred and the civil order is feared by the shameless lovers of liberty. — Pope Gregory XVI

Men and women existed before creeds; love is the only religion. — Rosa Campbell Praed

My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with. — Johnny Vegas

I remember the dog at home, when I was a girl; the one that killed chickens. They tied a dead hen around his neck and he carried it around with him all day until he just lay there unmoving with his eyes shut in a morass of shame. It was cruel. There's nothing so hideously easy as giving someone a bad conscience. — Tove Jansson

For the moment they wanted to live with the least expenditure, economize words, gestures, thoughts, float: they had only one day in which to smooth out their wrinkles, their crow's feet, the bitter lines made by a hard week's work. One day only. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Don't let criticism be the dam that turns your raging river of enthusiasm into a complacent lake of indifference~ — M. Craig