Shannara Chronicles Quotes & Sayings

They had to return to the one sure and never-failing resource- slander. — Leo Tolstoy

Everyone in my family is a risk taker in his or her own way. — Ann Bancroft

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal. — Joseph Addison

Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and cooperation may be cultivated. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

You could buy individual boxes of detergent and fabric softener, even bleach, and there was nothing that made me grind my teeth with pleasure more than a real thing shrunken down small. The first time my dad showed me a toothache kit from a box of equipment from the Korean War and I saw the tiny cotton balls (the size of very small ball bearings), I nearly swooned. "Let me hold one of those," I said, almost mad at him. He gave it to me with a tiny pair of tweezers. I let it float in my palm a moment and then made him take it back. Miniaturization was a gift from God, no doubt about it, and there it was, right in a vending machine in the place we used to do our laundry. — Haven Kimmel