Shipston Home Quotes & Sayings

Consider Nelson Mandela who related; "When I had been released from prison and came home to my family, I went to embrace my daughter. She pushed me away. "You may be the father of the nation, but are no father to me." How is it, there are children who — Suzann Dodd

He has a reptile dysfunction. — Jodi Picoult

It's important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know that's a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos. We have a common past, and we have a common future. — Louise Leakey

They'd never known anything but victory which, Paul realized, could be a weakness in itself. He put that thought aside for later consideration in his own training program. — Frank Herbert

I don't believe just because you're a conservative that you're angry. — James Lankford

Why don't I kill myself? If I knew exactly what keeps me from doing so, I should have no more questions to ask myself since I should have answered them all. — Emil Cioran

[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off. — Judith Viorst

The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old. — Jean De La Bruyere

In video games you sometimes run into what they call a side quest, and if you don't manage to figure it out you can usually just go back into the normal world of the game and continue on toward your objective. I felt like I couldn't find my way back to the world now: like I was somebody locked in a meaningless side quest, in a stuck screen. — John Darnielle

For the curious, I write — Veronica Purcell

I'm doing what I want to do. — Nancy Reagan