Pheninem Quotes & Sayings

I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain. — Bill Bryson

How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can. — Nana Mouskouri

The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man. — Woodrow Wilson

In the era of electronic products, all electrical fuse boards should have a surge protector and a filter installed into them as standard. — Steven Magee

I just think the most important aspect in being able to have a productive relationship between the teachers' unions and the districts and the states that they're dealing with is that the person sitting across the table from them should not have received the largest campaign contributions from the teachers' union itself. — Mitt Romney

Comes to be everything reminds you of something past. Somewhere past. Someone. Yourself, maybe, how you were. The now gets fainter and the past more and more real. The future worn down to but a stub. — Joe Abercrombie

The places we visited were always richer and always more intricate than one could imagine. I loved to find out about the world, the good and the bad, in this way. For me, observing things with my own eyes was the only way. My wanderlust was also a wonderlust. — Luke F.D. Marsden

The Book that made the nation was destroying the nation; the nation that had taken to the Book was rescued not by the Book but by the force of arms. — Mark A. Noll

Not the bravest. Or the most daring. In Dr. Moorcraft's words, the greatest secret of the Plankholders was simply that, to the best of the army's assessment, they were the ones who cared about no one but themselves. — Brad Meltzer

When you open to the world, the world opens to you. — Djahariah Mitra

I'm cute, but not beautiful.
I sin, but I'm not the devil.
I'm good, but not an angel.
I'm me and that's all I can be. — Alona Kimhi

If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big Sea' by Langston Hughes. — Pearl Cleage