Predeceased Ancestor Quotes & Sayings

One ought to be just before one is generous — Winston Churchill

Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it. — Luc De Clapiers

I'm afraid to see a psychiatrist about the voices in my head. She might know who they are. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

I have to hurry all day to get time to pray. — Martin Luther

Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little chance operation sometimes where I flip through outdated reference books to see if anything will strike me as beautiful or momentous. Library roulette, I call it. — Jenny Offill

I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. — Gabriel Byrne

The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated. — Clint Eastwood

What I'm doing is the thing I want to do. I don't care what other people think. I still will be a bodybuilder. I love it. I love the feeling in my muscles, I love the competition, and I love the things it gives me. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

He had never been in love. He had not known what it would feel like. He understood what the term meant, but his life had not allowed for exploring its possibilities. There had been few he had really loved. His parents; Michael. That was it. And that was love of a different kind. Less intense, less hungry. What he felt for Simralin went so far beyond anything manageable that it shocked him. He could tell himself it was because he had found her beautiful in a way that transcended anything he had ever known. But his attraction to her was a response to so much more. To her self-confidence and way of speaking. To her smile and the quirky way she lifted one eyebrow when she was amused. To the way she carried herself. To the way she looked at him. — Terry Brooks

Perhaps the greatest lesson she'd learned was that the quality of one's relationships had less to do with time spent together than with the manner in which it was spent. — Linda Kay Silva

I've never come into anything successful before. I've always been hired by horrible radio stations with horrendous reputations and nothing to lose. — Howard Stern