Patchery Quotes & Sayings

Tonpa, be anxious no more
Hard times have abandoned you
Good times lie in wait for you — M.C. Mary Kom

I had returned to piano-playing and music lessons when I had turned seventy-five (having written about how even older people can learn new skills, I thought it was time to take my own advice). — Oliver Sacks

I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it. — Glenn Beck

If you are a stepparent, rush right out and get yourself a dog. Because it's very nice to have someone in the house that loves you. — Delia Ephron

Focus on the victory instead of on everything that could go wrong. — Sanya Richards-Ross

Confidence comes from hard work. It comes from facing different situations and making putts. It comes from knowing you've worked on the right things, so when you get under the gun, you can execute what you've practiced. — David Duval

Speaking as one who has abused privilege a long time, I tell you, it's great to be alive. — Warren Zevon

But dear, you hate to sew.
I will be married soon. Lady Thiel says a woman with needlework in her hands is generally assumed to have no other thoughts in her head and can safely harbor any number of improprieties. That will come in handy, especially when I'm married to a wizard. — Patricia A. McKillip

The human story is one of continual branching movement, out of Africa to every corner of the globe. When people talk of blood and soil, as if their ancestors sprung fully formed from the earth of a particular place, it involves a kind of forgetting.
(Hari Kunzru) — Carolina De Robertis

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions. — Iris Murdoch

Some people live for the sake of their partners and derive their strength and energy from them — Sunday Adelaja