Return To Cranford Quotes & Sayings

I always wanted my mother to be Queen for a Day. I always used to watch that show that came on television. — Stevie Wonder

Life is but a dream, within a dream. — William Shakespeare

New York is the thing that seduced me. — Patti Smith

I'm a big comic book nerd so every time I'm in costume and see everyone in costume I'm just like "This is sick." — Franz Drameh

I would recognise myself in each of his translations and he would feel betrayed and annoyed whenever I didn't write something the way he would have. A part of me died with him, a part of him lives with me. — Eduardo Galeano

He laughs a little, but there's something in his voice that sounds almost reverent.
'You never know what will last.'
He said that earlier, about accidents, about never knowing which one is just a kink in the road and which ones is a fork, about never knowing your life is changing until it's already happened.
'I think sometimes you do know,' I say, my voice filling with emotion. — Gayle Forman

Babies are unreasonable; they expect far too much of existence. Each new generation that comes takes one look at the world and thinks wildly, "Is this all they've done to it?" and bursts into tears. — Clarence Day

There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off. — Angela Carter

LADY ANNE:
What, do you tremble? Are you all afraid?
Alas, I blame you not, for you are mortal,
And mortal eyes cannot endure the devil. - — William Shakespeare

The very variety arising from the union of numbers of individuals is the highest good which social life can confer, and this variety is undoubtedly lost in proportion to the degree of State interference. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt