Marietjie Van Quotes & Sayings

The award for the craziest story I ever heard goes to an old woman in Chicago who told me that her cat was planning to assassinate the president. — Adam J. Wright

Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see,
Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me;
In exile thy bosom shall still be my home,
And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam. — Thomas Moore

Success is deciding from the start what end result you want and creating the circumstances to realize that result. — Mark Victor Hansen

Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality. — Lucy Larcom

Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered. — Abraham Lincoln

I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor. — Peggy Noonan

You ever hear that expression 'If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck'? — Alex Duval

People tend to think of breakthroughs in medicine as a new drug, a laser, or a high-tech surgical procedure. They often have a hard time believing that the simple choices that we make in our lifestyle. What we eat, how we respond to stress, whether or not we smoke cigarettes, how much exercise we get, and the quality of our relationships and support can be as powerful as drugs and surgery. And they often are. — Dean Ornish

It occurred to him that there were a lot of stories for kids with stuff like this in them, stuff that threw acid all over your emotions. Hansel and Gretel being turned out into the forest, Bambi's mother getting scragged by a hunter, the death of Old Yeller. It was easy to hurt little kids, easy to make them cry, and this seemed to bring out a strangely sadistic streak in many story-tellers ... including, it seemed, Beryl Evans. — Stephen King