Urbinos Quotes & Sayings

Why, Uncle?" Jacob asked. "Why are they doing this?" Abruptly, Avi pulled the Adler around a corner onto a street that, for the moment at least, was as quiet as it was deserted. Avi slammed on the brakes and shut down the engine. Then he turned sharply and stared into Jacob's eyes. "Because he's a Jew," Avi whispered. "They're killing him because he's a Jew. — Joel C. Rosenberg

To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do. — Paul Auster

But even so, we're not devils, let alone gods. We're human. We're human! — Hiromu Arakawa

Thanks," I said. "Go home," he said. — Gary D. Schmidt

Can it really be so hard to die? — Ruta Sepetys

A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief. — Will Rogers

Virtues, of ...
Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve. — Benjamin Franklin

But as we are looking toward our future, I'm not sure it matters what we want to be but rather who we want to be. Someone honest or deceitful? Someone kind or cruel? Someone loyal or unfaithful? In any profession we can elect to be any of those things. I think this assignment is not only about what we choose to do but about who we choose to be. I choose to always be loyal to myself. — Ellen Schreiber

You always believed we could survive in the outside world. I'm doing everything I can to give at least some of us a chance of not only surviving but truly living. — Anne Bishop

I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the griddle. And life ain't nothing, but a funny, funny riddle. — John Denver

Even Grace still imagined there might be words, the words that could reach Dora and that had so far, unaccountably, not been hit upon. Only Caro recognized that Dora's condition was exactly that: a condition, an irrational state requiring professional, or divine, intervention. — Shirley Hazzard