Pollywog Quotes & Sayings

If cyberspace can screw with you, it will. — Dana Stabenow

I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the boarding schools, and pretty much taught to be ashamed of who they were as Native Americans. You can feel that impact today. — Chaske Spencer

Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with imagination and association, understanding becomes a part of it. — Tony Buzan

My dad cut my hair once - I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years. — Alexa Chung

Sometimes life demands things of you, that just the fact of being alive means for allowing for possibilites that may be far from what you'd planned or even hoped. — Robin Black

Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete. — Walter Bagehot

Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll ... — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Life, even in Everworld, wasn't a romance novel. I guess romance writers imagine that being rescued is a big rush, a kind of thrill that will just send you into a state of uncontrollable desire. But here I was, all alone with a shockingly handsome man who had just saved my life. A knight, no less. And mainly I just felt tired. — K.A. Applegate

You're very handsome tonight, my lord."
"What's this? A compliment from the lovely widow?"
"A mere observation."
"Why do I suspect that you had too much to drink at dinner? — Ashley March

I've swallowed a pollywog. It wriggleth in my tummy. I shall die - Emerson — E. M. Forster

The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him. — Clarence Darrow

The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don't die at all - he sort of rots away, like a pollywog's tail. — Charles Farrar Browne

Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I think he's wonderful and strange and kind of like a poem. — Whitley Strieber