Teimosa Quotes & Sayings

They're the sort of people one invites to lunch or tea, but never to dinner. — Margery Wilson

What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of barbarism and wretchedness but a bigoted veneration for the supposed superlative wisdom of their fathers and the preposterous idea that they are to look backward for better things and not forward, longing, as it should seem, to return to the days of eating acorns and roots rather than indulge in the degeneracies of civilization? — Thomas Jefferson

Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another." He spread his broad hands. "We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory. Who knows?" He smiles. "Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you. — Madeline Miller

It is a little thing to speak a phrase of common comfort, which by daily use has almost lost its sense; yet on the ear of him who thought to die unmourned it will fall like choicest music. — Thomas Noon Talfourd

The concept of endless love is something that we can exercise in all kinds of ways. — Bruce Greenwood

A general must be shot or befriended - but never hurt. — Salvador De Madariaga

All my mom's side speaks Spanish. I speak to my grandparents in Spanish. Slowly. And they're patient with me! But I do speak with them in Spanish and carry on conversations with them. — David Archuleta

My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world. — Ziggy Marley

A world without dragons is a world not worth living in. — R.A. Salvatore

It's always ten to ten. — Bill Miller

He appreciated you. But he couldn't feed your soul for the rest of your life. Can't you just appreciate that he was great for you for that period of time? — Susan E. Isaacs

We know that working with small businesses to create jobs will do more to help our economy than anything the Obama Administration has tried to do. — Marsha Blackburn

I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief goal as a writer has always been to tell a good story and give my readers a good time. — Kenneth Oppel

He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each. — Douglas Adams