Rueppells Glossy Starling Quotes & Sayings

We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it. — Margot Kidder

Assuming that two-thirds of the Senate will not vote to remove the president, what is the alternative? I think we need to explore that in debate, .. Some have suggested censure. I think it is certainly a possibility that the Senate will decide on some alternative to removing the president from office. — Thad Cochran

Perhaps the simplest example is a synthetic plastic, which unlike natural materials, is not degraded by biological decay. It therefore persists as rubbish or is burned-in both cases causing pollution. In the same way, a substance such as DDT or lead, which plays no role in the chemistry of life and interferes with the actions of substances that do, is bound to cause ecological damage if sufficiently concentrated. — Barry Commoner

Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible. — Jean-Paul Sartre

And then George approaching, his hand stuck to his hat and the hat bent into the onslaught. She — Alice McDermott

The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the fool, the way of someone who doesn't need to be noticed. — Frederick Lenz

The first person & the last person in your life are the most important, the in-between is just a transition. — Arlin Sailesh Kapadia

One of my most precious possessions is my memory of a home in which love was supreme, in which I cannot recall ever a cross word having passed between father and mother. We all owe such a blessing to our children. — David O. McKay

September 14th, 2009 — JohnA Passaro

Novels are the means by which we can escape the moment we are imprisoned in, but at the same time, the roots of a novel are in the world in which it is written. We write, and we read, to understand the world we live in. — Romesh Gunesekera

Crazy as a cuttlefish
Nasty as a RAT
Put her in a pie dish
Give her to the CAT! — Angie Sage

We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last. — Gene Wolfe

It is at night, not in the day, that stars shine the brightest. — Matshona Dhliwayo