Vexia Johnson Quotes & Sayings

People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply. — Honore De Balzac

I remember how, back in the 1980s, the Scottish Flow Country became an object of bemused controversy as rich celebrities and businessmen from south of the border acquired great tracts of this vast wetland in the far north in order to plant non-native conifer plantations that attract hefty tax breaks. — John Burnside

A Supreme Court nomination and appointment is not a roving commission to rewrite our laws. — John Cornyn

Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it. — Dennis Lehane

Jay's mom was a lot of great things that Violet admired, technologically savvy was definitely not one of them. She was one of those people who were loath to move into the twenty-first century and embrace all things modern. She was the only adult woman that Violet knew of who didn't own a cell phone, and she refused to buckle beneath the pressure to pay good money for high-speed internet, so Jay was forced to plug his secondhand laptop into the phone line and use dial-up. Not because they couldn't afford such luxuries, but because Ann Heaton wasn't going down without a fight. — Kimberly Derting