Olding Green Quotes & Sayings

All Britons are descended from the same set of people a mere thirty generations ago. — Matt Ridley

- Boys my age are boring. They have nothing to say and half of them seem like complete idiots.
I was going to say that they didn't improve with age but didn't want to spoil her illusions. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

His eyes went again to the crucifix above his head, reflected in the mirror. The strained arms, the arched spine. All that effort to open the gates of heaven for us and we (he thought) probably spend out first hours among the heavenly hosts settling old scores with relatives. — Alice McDermott

That means that violation of her purity lowers the honor rating of the male and, ultimately, of the entire family. In such cultures, rape by those outside the family is a tool of humiliation and shame that shreds the fabric of family life. — Walter F. Taylor Jr.

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance. — George Gillespie

So, I became a chameleon ... [a]nd after a while I hardly knew what I really felt and thought because I became so good at adapting. — Gloria Miklowitz