Romulus My Father Movie Quotes & Sayings

And I don't mean that the storytelling that's out there shouldn't be happening. I just feel like that there's this huge imbalance with it all. Where are the shows that allow the entire family to sit down and enjoy something together? — Michael Landon Jr.

So many things seemed to come in plastic bags now that it was difficult to keep track of them. The main thing was not to throw it away carelessly, better still to put it away in a safe place, because there was a note printed on it which read 'To avoid danger of suffocation keep this wrapper away from babies and children'. They could have said from middle-aged and elderly persons too, who might well have an irresistible urge to suffocate themselves. — Barbara Pym

To be a person who sees a political ad on television and takes the statements in it as fact, how can you exist in this world? How is it you're not robbed daily by charlatans who knock at your door? — Curtis Sittenfeld

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them. — Jimmy Carter

People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands. — Abbe Pierre

Even the hot meat pie man had stopped crying his wares and, with no regard for personal safety, was eating one. The — Terry Pratchett

The story pours over me like water, drips down onto my head until I'm immersed head-to-toe, transported between the covers. — Riley Redgate

They say that people are innately afraid of those who need them, they say that people are afraid of "clingy-ness", afraid of attachment, afraid of being needed by another. But I beg to disagree. I believe that people, when looking at someone who is needy of them, see themselves and see their own fears and they go away because they can't handle those fears; it's their own neediness that they're afraid of! They're afraid to want and to need, because they're afraid of loss and of losing, so when they see these things in another, that's when they run away. Nobody is actually running away from other people; everybody is really running away from themselves! — C. JoyBell C.

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell. — Plato

Three kinds of souls, three prayers: 1) I am a bow in your hands, Lord. Draw me, lest I rot. 2) Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break. 3) Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break. — Nikos Kazantzakis

You carry all the ingredients to turn your existence into joy. Mix them, Mix them! — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say 'I don't know' about anything. — Johnny Miller

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off. — Colin Powell

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective. — Naomi Wolf

Oh dear, I want to nuzzle into my sofa, but I have to get up and put on an evening dress. — Mary Ann Shaffer