One Crazy Summer Fern Quotes & Sayings

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process. — B.F. Skinner

My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way. — Al Capone

I realized then that thinking about what my life might have been was an impossible thing to consider, because in thinking about what my life would have been with Mama still in it, I would have to completely disregard the knowledge of what my life was now, with all its troubles and dangers but also all its miraculous gifts. — Victoria Laurie

The pro-E.U. campaign is all too likely to be based on a fear of the unknown because in most people's lifetime, we have never been out of the E.U. — Nigel Lawson

I now understand that I would never have been able to become a plausible critic of the absurdities of modern consciousness until I myself had experienced them. I did not become an orthodox believer or theologian until after I tried out most of the errors long rejected by Christianity. If my first forty years were spent hungering for meaning in life, the last forty have been spent in being fed. If the first forty were prodigal, the last forty have been a homecoming. — Thomas C. Oden

In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty ... in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe. — Deepak Chopra

Every puppy should have a boy. — Erma Bombeck

Come boy, and pour for me a cup
Of old Falernian. Fill it up
With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear;
Our host decrees no water here.
Let dullards drink the Nymph's pale brew,
The sluggish thin their blood with dew.
For such pale stuff we have no use;
For us the purple grape's rich juice.
Begone, ye chilling water sprite;
Here burning Bacchus rules tonight! — Catullus

Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings. — Russell Conwell

Life tells the most beautiful stories. — A.D. Posey

Can you tell the difference between them? — Prince Philip

People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude. — Jason Bateman

Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength. — John Milton

You were meant for me, Poppy. I can feel it in my fingertips when I touch you. — Tess Oliver

No one really forgives unless he has been hurt. — Lewis B. Smedes