Salic Quotes & Sayings

That's the vast majority of this social media, all these reviews, all these comments. Your tools have elevated gossip, hearsay and conjecture to the level of valid, mainstream communication. — Dave Eggers

Perhaps the Queen's prayers, and those of Bernard, had been efficacious, or perhaps Louise had been more attentive in bed, for during 1145
the exact date is not recorded
she bore a daughter, who was named Marie in honour of the Virgin. If the infant was not the male heir to France so desired by the King
the Salic law forbade the succession of females to the throne
her arrival encouraged the royal parents to hope for a son in the future.
Relationships between aristocratic parents and children were rarely close. Queens and noblewomen did not nurse their own babies, but handed them over at birth into the care of wet nurses, leaving themselves free to become pregnant again. — Alison Weir

Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds. — Norman Vincent Peale

Carleton Coon of the University of Pennsylvania suggested that some modern races have different sources of origin, implying that some of us come from superior stock to others. — Bill Bryson

Learn from yesterday, Live for today, Pray for tomorrow — Daniel Salic

I think health is another exceedingly important thing. — Joan Collins

Do not test out your mind on the grounds that you are examining what seductive and impure thoughts look like, imagining that, as you do this, you will not be overcome by them. Even the wise have in this way been thrown into confusion and become infatuated. — Isaac Of Nineveh

I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life. — Erik Hersman

It's a tough lesson: There is no summit that comes before you expect it. — Mark Obmascik

Then the bow orchestra began to play an apocalyptically beautiful canon, one of those pieces in which, surely, the composer simply transcribed what was given, and trembled in awe of the hand that was guiding him. — Mark Helprin

Manipulating is just the way to proceed, to convince that what you're doing is important. Everyone is manipulating. — Herve Falciani