Urraca Island Quotes & Sayings

No wonder so many women had succumbed to this man, had thrown away their reputations and their honor for him ... had even, if rumor could be believed, threatened to kill themselves when he left them. He was sensuality incarnate. — Lisa Kleypas

THE GREAT HUMANITY
The great humanity is the deck-passenger on the ship
third class on the train
on foot on the causeway
the great humanity.
The great humanity goes to work at eight
marries at twenty
dies at forty
the great humanity.
Bread is enough for all except the great humanity
rice the same
sugar the same
cloth the same
books the same
are enough for all except the great humanity.
The great humanity has no shade on his soil
no lamp on his road
no glass on his window
but the great humanity has hope
you can't live without hope. — Nazim Hikmet

Wisdom comes in the silence of one's chaos — Dora Okeyo

We tried to shut him in a pyramid, but Mum spotted us. — J.K. Rowling

Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it. — Tom Shippey

You want to be a hero. That is why you do such silly things. — Romain Rolland

Teach us the names of what we have destroyed. — Dana Gioia

They're making us think our thoughts are what we're thinking...I think.-Patrick Star — Stephen Hillenburg

Those new regions [America] which we found and explored with the fleet ... we may rightly call a New World ... a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us. — Amerigo Vespucci