Palmettoes Quotes & Sayings

[T]hey don't care about realpolitik or the big picture. They only care about monkey-wrenching and whistle blowing. — Peter Watts

America today limits girls' development, truncates their wholeness and leaves many of them traumatized. — Mary Pipher

Many people, after spending a long weekend being stealthily seduced by this grand dame of the South, mistakenly think that they have gotten to know her: they believe (in error) that after a long stroll amongst the rustling palmettoes and gas lamps, a couple of sumptuous meals, and a tour or two, that they have discovered everything there is to know about this seemingly genteel, elegant city. But like any great seductress, Charleston presents a careful veneer of half-truths and outright fabrications, and it lets you, the intended conquest, fill in many of the blanks. Seduction, after all, is not true love, nor is it a gentle act. She whispers stories spun from sugar about pirates and patriots and rebels, about plantations and traditions and manners and yes, even ghosts; but the entire time she is guarded about the real story. Few tourists ever hear the truth, because at the dark heart of Charleston is a winding tale of violence, tragedy and, most of all, sin. — James Caskey

Most of my background is Filipino and partly Chinese, but mostly Filipino. — Reggie Lee

The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie back of all, and are the final source of all ... Time, geologic time, looks out at us from the rocks as from no other objects in the landscape. — John Burroughs

To love the world is to be afflicted. — Yunus Emre

There was a road between the but, strangely, all the cars disappeared. — Sarah Addison Allen