Periquete Quotes & Sayings

I can't have it either. It affects the babies in utero."
"Nonsense," he said, tossing his long auburn hair over one shoulder. Life would be easier if he wasn't so damned good-looking. "Why, my mother drank wine every day, and I turned out just fine."
"I think you're proving my point for me," I said dryly — Richelle Mead

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. — Andrew Solomon

Books were always important. I have to thank my father, he filled my life with books. He didn't write but he always read. He was a merchant, he filled the store with cigarette smoke and his friends, all talking about books and politics. It was bad for business. He dealt in women's clothing. — Rawi Hage

51Then he returned to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. And his mother stored all these things in her heart. — Anonymous

What can be more disgusting than that impudent dross of gallantry, thought so manly, which makes many men stare insultingly at every female they meet? Can it be termed respect for the sex? No, this loose behaviour shews such habitual depravity, such weakness of mind, that it is vain to expect much public or private virtue, till both men and women grow more modest . . .
not the indolent condescension of protectorship. — Mary Wollstonecraft

So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system. — Jeff Kinney

It's the digitals. Leith has that word he uses for the shift from analogs to digitals. That word he uses about eleven times an hour. — David Foster Wallace

That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to ... grapple with the unfamiliar. — Brian Aldiss

If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything. — Teresa Of Avila

I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest. — Norma McCorvey