Rudger Quotes & Sayings

The greater the value of the object desired, the greater the effort required in it attainment. — Rudger Clawson

If you will show me the songs which a people or a community sing, then I will tell you the character of that community. — Rudger Clawson

When I say that Latinos share conservative values, when Ronald Reagan said that, we mean the love of family, the love of country, a commitment to personal responsibility, to hard work. — Lionel Sosa

To be a famously successful opera singer. I wanted that since I was eight. — Danielle De Niese

... So, um, you're from Rochester? Like, New York?" Jersey asked.
"Yup, we used to live out there," Rudger confirmed, nonchalant. "You ever been?"
"Naw, the closest I've ever been to there would be ... well, believe it or not, New Jersey, the place where my parents named me after. It was crowded, polluted and full of crime ... I loved it. — Rebecca McNutt

I wish I could run away," Rudger told Jersey as they both rushed in and out of various patients' rooms, darting around like little ants. "I can't leave and be on my own though, not right now, anyway."
"Why?" asked Jersey, waving her flashlight in mid-air.
Rudger froze for a second, a regretful haze emanating from his eyes. "It'd break her heart if I left."
"Ain't that normal? For parents to have mixed feelings about their kids growin' up?"
"Not for me, it isn't."
Jersey made a pitying face in his direction. "So, you wanna keep bein' towed around with your mom, livin' in a gross town like Danvers?"
"Is there a choice?"
"Yeah, there sure is. You can run away and try to be a whole person before it's too late, or you can live with mommy dearest forever and turn into Norman Bates. — Rebecca McNutt

The principle of faith is as firm as the very pillars of heaven. — Rudger Clawson

If someone likes my fiction more for the quality of my prose rather than the quality of my storytelling, I'm doing something wrong. — Jamie Ford

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system. — George W. Bush

I don't like acting and I never have liked acting and I never wanted to be an actress. — Elsa Lanchester

You are the most rare & majestic you there ever was and ever will be. — Jenna Marbles

When we work with history, to a very great degree we are all guessing. But by using motifs of time and history in a fantasy setting, we are acknowledging that this educated guesswork, invention, fantasy underlie our treatment of the past and its peoples - and we are not claiming a right to do with them as we will. — Guy Gavriel Kay

We deceive ourselves in thinking that death only follows life whereas it both goes before and will follow after it for where is the difference in not beginning or ceasing to exist the effect of both is not to be — Seneca.

Ain't nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord. — Nancy B. Brewer