Prendergast Library Quotes & Sayings

It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place — Oscar Wilde

Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home. — Anais Nin

We must win when we deserve it, by elevating reason and the dignity of the individual, loving justice and the good and the great, even dying for it. — Jose Rizal

Make your vacation your vocation. — Mark Twain

Life has many insignificant pursuits that add little or no value to your reality. — Steven Redhead

When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift a ruinous yoke from both. — Marya Mannes

No Life can pompless pass away -
The lowliest career
To the same Pageant wends its way
As that exalted here - — Emily Dickinson

I don't pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look. — Josef Koudelka

Children do not grow up all of a piece; look for the child of seven, especially to take many backward glances at the way he has come, while bounds and leaps unevenly ahead in his growth. — Caroline Pratt

Still, Mrs Potts wasn't going to let the girl just leave - not if she could help it. And having lived with a stubborn individual for quite some time, she knew that sometimes the best way to make people do what they didn't want to do was to give them the chance to do it on their own terms. — Elizabeth Rudnick

Sidonie," he said, his voice strangely hoarse. "You are the most - I mean, you are so ... I find you ... ah, devil take it! Never mind!"
"I beg your pardon?"
"Nothing," he growled. "I misspoke. What did you say about oranges? — Liz Carlyle

Everyone's face is a mirror, Dick - endeavor to make them reflect a smile. — Maggie Stiefvater