Stalwarts And Half Breeds Quotes & Sayings

I only want to be famous to my friends.
book: stuff i think about — Sondra Faye

Gods always love the people who make em. — Zora Neale Hurston

The place smelled like Sam
or, I guess, he smelled like the store. Like ink and old building and something more leafy than coffee but less interesting than weed. It was all very ... erudite. I felt surrounded by conversations I had no interest in participating in. — Maggie Stiefvater

Why couldn't she have this, just enjoy this, without creating obstacles, digging up problems, worrying about mistakes, about tomorrow's? Why let the maybe's, the what if's, the probabilities spoil something so lovely? — Nora Roberts

One of the slight variances between the Stalwarts and their fellow Republicans the Half-Breeds is that the Half-Breeds, partly out of frustration with the Civil War sainthood of Grant, were clean-shirt guys more interested in stumping for mild civil service reform - a platform whose merit would make for a less stirring campaign song. A bureaucrat should pass a test, hurrah, hurrah! — Sarah Vowell

Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly. — Nick Cave

The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness. — Marcus Aurelius

To come across a Master and to miss the Master is the greatest accident, very unfortunate, that can happen to a man. — Rajneesh

The heart can see things invisible to the eye. — T.A. Barron

There was a time we laughed at the old guys up on the hill. The ones who graduated a couple of years before us, and who would hang around the school and the ballpark still, and would sit on the hoods of their cars and tell us how when they were seniors they did it better, faster, and further. We laughed, because we were still doing it, and all they could do was talk. If our goals were not met, there was next year, but it never occurred to us that one day there would not be a next year, and that the guys sitting on the hoods of their cars at the top of the hill, wishing they could have one more year, willing to settle for one last game, could one day be us. — Tucker Elliot