Reprender Quotes & Sayings

After scientists broke open the coat of a lotus seed (Nelumbo nucifera) and coddled the embryo into growth, they kept the empty husk. When they radiocarbon-dated this discarded outer shell, they discovered that their seedling had been waiting for them within a peat bog in China for no less than two thousand years. This tiny seed had stubbornly kept up the hope of its own future while entire human civilizations rose and fell. And then one day this little plant's yearning finally burst forth within a laboratory. I wonder where it is right now. — Hope Jahren

I don't know why I bother arguing with anybody sometimes, it never changes a damn thing. — John Gordon Morrison

The White House has announced that they no longer recognize Fox as a news organization, which puts them about eight years behind the rest of us. — David Letterman

At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter. — Luke Ford

Democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time. Most people's daily lives are just about surviving. Most people don't have time to really study [crucial] issues. — Brad Pitt

Light and darkness cannot occupy the same space at the same time. — Robert D. Hales

Well, I'll be," she said mischievously. "You might just be a nice person after all."
"I'm hardly nice," he scoffed.
"Perhaps, but you're hardly cruel, either."
-Daphne & Simon — Julia Quinn

My stepfather was a very nasty individual. — Jill Scott

Do not rush, for God's secret is patience. Everything that is meant to be, will come at the designated time. — Leon Brown

A saguaro can fall for a snowman but where would they set up house? — Jodi Picoult

Everybody who does anything at all does too much. — Edith Wharton

People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make. — Juliana Hatfield