Smacked Cucumber Quotes & Sayings

The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child in repressing his spirits and courage, paralyzing the understanding, and that without producing indignation, but only fear and obedience, and even much sympathy with his tyranny, - is a familiar fact explained to the child when he becomes a man, only by seeing that the oppressor of his youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forma, of whose influence he was merely the organ to the youth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I tend to land roles that are somewhat villainous for some reason. Usually, people blame it on the accent. — India De Beaufort

Normal people don't just wake up in the morning and say I think it'd be a good idea to run for president of the United States. — Jon Huntsman Jr.

Our position in Europe is not negotiable. The Greek people will defend it by all means. But participation in the euro involves rules and obligations, which we must consistently meet. Greece belongs to Europe and Europe cannot be envisaged without Greece. — Lucas Papademos

For centuries my father's family lived on Britain's biggest tidal river, the Severn, on which there was a huge trade with the interior, and through the Port of Bristol with America. — Edward Rutherfurd

You can't separate adaptability from evolution — Thabiso Monkoe