Quagmires Obx Quotes & Sayings

The transformations of the French empire itself or of French power structures themselves as well as the emergence of a kind of language of equal rights starting with the American Revolution and the French Revolution provided an opportunity and in some ways connected with other kinds of ground level desires or hopes and ideologies for freedom that were coming out of the plantation regime itself. — Laurent Dubois

Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up. — Marlena De Blasi

It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species. — Maria Montessori

Cautiously, the mouth applied to the valve, I breathe. The gas still creeps over the ground and sinks into all hollows. Like a big, soft jellyfish it floats into our shell-hole and lolls there obscenely. — Erich Maria Remarque

My mom is a translator for the school district in Delaware. She'd hear these different stories from working with families there. Those stories stuck with me. — Cristina Henriquez

Trouble was, they never let on to their sons how scared they was - so scared they forgot the color of a man because he could outshoot the man who scared 'em. And bein ashamed, they never talked about it or discussed it in the family. — Peter Matthiessen

Oh, river! darkling river! what a voice
Is that thou utterest while all else is still
The ancient voice that, centuries ago,
Sounded between thy hills, while Rome was yet
A weedy solitude by Tiber's stream! — William C. Bryant

Are ya tryin' to kill me, Maggie?" Declan bit the words out and his fingers dug deeper into her hips. "Are ya wantin' to see a grown man beg? — Sara Humphreys

Within a few hours the cottage furniture began to be wrapped up for preservation in the family absence - or, as Mr Meagles expressed it, the house began to put its hair in papers - and — Charles Dickens

My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away. — Michel De Montaigne

And he's sorry he ever doubted the House. She's the one. One of the ones. His shining girls. — Lauren Beukes