Raeburn Quotes & Sayings

The presence of many interacting influences, including the attainments of others, create further leeway in how one's performances and outcomes are cognitively appraised — Albert Bandura

researchers analyzed data on more than six thousand children in Hong Kong, where smoking is not confined to those in lower economic brackets and where most smokers are men. The children were assessed when they were seven years old and again when they were eleven. Those whose fathers smoked when the mothers were pregnant were more likely to be overweight or obese. It was the first evidence supporting the idea that childhood obesity could be affected by a mother's exposure to her husband's smoking while she was pregnant. — Paul Raeburn

He was right. My ruthless, murdering blood brother had been right all along. — Julie Kagawa

Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets. — Alice Munro

I had a dream about a motorcycle," said Harry, remembering suddenly. "It was flying."
Uncle Vernon nearly crashed into the car in front. He turned right around in his seat and yelled at Harry, his face like a gigantic beet with a mustache: "MOTORCYCLES DON'T FLY!"
Dudley and Piers sniggered.
"I know they don't," said Harry. "It was only a dream. — J.K. Rowling

Humility fears not humiliation. — John Spencer Yantiss

Walk down any sidewalk in any city and eventually you'll find a flower growing out of a crack in the concrete, tenaciously grasping for life, barely enough earth for it to clench hold of. This little flower has seeded, sprouted, and blossomed, despite thousands of feet walking over and around it every day. This flower is a survivor, thriving better than if it were in my Aunt Tilda's fucking backyard garden with her fussing over it day and night and giving it all the goddamned care she thought it needed. Yeah, eventually, some careless asshole's gonna trample and kill that flower, but another one's gonna replace it. [...] I'll always believe in you, Raeburn. You just have to find another crack in the sidewalk and blossom. Don't be another Kurt Cobain. Don't give up. People need you. — Pete Conrad

It seems as though I've always been,somebody outside looking in,well, here I am for all of them to bleed,but they can't take my heart from me,and they can't bring me to my knees,they'll never know the real me. — Mariah Carey

'In Country' was also made into a film, which opened the story up to a broader audience. — Bobbie Ann Mason

Bein Crazy
is the least of my worries. — Jack Kerouac

Having me in the dining-room was almost the equivalent of having a Raeburn on the walls; I was classy, I was heavily varnished, and I offended nobody. — Robertson Davies

When she goes, he though. I'll have all I want. Not all I want but all there is — Ernest Hemingway,

We meet a lot of people, we drink lots of stuff and have lots of fun. — Bon Scott

We think that cutting routine office visits to twenty minutes, fifteen minutes, even ten minutes will save money when in fact, with less time for doctors to examine and less time to think, we are incurring far greater costs through excessive testing and needless treatment. — Martin J. Blaser

I find myself believing everything that journalists tell me. — Chris Lilley