Tocava Alligator Quotes & Sayings

Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians - we call them 'children'. — Hannah Arendt

Why should I read something someone made up when real events are so interesting? — Frank Buckles

Joseph responded with a dark grin. "Finally - she sees me for what I am. — Claire E. Cruddas

Don't go getting all shy on me now, Lana, he drawled, squeezing my sides with his hands — Abbi Glines

he who feeds you, controls you — Thomas Sankara

We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up. The children themselves haven't yet isolated themselves by selfishness and indifference; they do not fall easily into the error of despair; they are considerably braver than most grownups. Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if we don't look, evil will go away, but to give them weapons against it. — Madeleine L'Engle

Only I still had a problem. The problem was my parents. Of the many things I was afraid of in those days - spiders, insomnia, fish hooks, school dances, hardball, heights, bees, urinals, puberty, music teachers, dogs, the school cafeteria, censure, older teenagers, jellyfish, locker rooms, boomerangs, popular girls, the high dive - I was probably most afraid of my parents. — Jonathan Franzen

One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it. — Octavio Paz

Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The psalms in the Old Testament have a special food for the soul of one in distress. — Ezra Taft Benson