Volumnia Quotes & Sayings

There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse. — Malorie Blackman

Life is not enjoyed by being busy over everything in general, but being passionate about one thing in particular. Always focus on that one thing; dream it and live it! — Israelmore Ayivor

[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions. — Max Delbruck

Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself, And so shall starve with feeding. Volumnia says this in Shakespeare's Coriolanus. She - steely, controlling - is far more interesting than Coriolanus. Alas, nobody would go to see a play called Volumnia. — Lauren Groff

Volumnia hastens to express her opinion that the shocking people ought to be tried as traitors, and made to support the Party. — Charles Dickens

The fair Volumnia, being one of those sprightly girls who cannot long continue silent without imminent peril of seizure by the dragon Boredom, soon indicates the approach of that monster with a series of undisguisable yawns. Finding — Charles Dickens

Don't cry over darkness see the beautiful sky — Thabiso Monkoe

I have a 6-year-old niece who doesn't look like the majority of girls on the covers of magazines. I hope that by the time she's 16, the world will have changed. — Prabal Gurung

It was unfortunately simultaneous with a slight misunderstanding between my Lady and myself. I do not mean that there was any difference between us (for there has been none), but that there was a misunderstanding of certain circumstances important only to ourselves, which deprives me, for a little while, of my Lady's society. She has found it necessary to make a journey - I trust will shortly return. Volumnia, — Charles Dickens

The word surrender sounds horrible to one who wants to enjoy his senses but very sweet to one who has a humble heart. — Radhanath Swami

You don't just rise to the top. There are times of preparation and many mountains to conquer for the ultimate triumph to the top. — Lailah Gifty Akita