Wattled Lapwing Quotes & Sayings

We had been assured by our elders that intelligence was a family trait. All my kin and forebears were people of substantial or remarkable intellect, thought somehow none of them had prospered in the world. Too bookish, my grandmother said with tart pride, and Lucille and I read constantly to forestall criticism, anticipating failure. If my family were not as intelligent as we were pleased to pretend, this was an innocent deception, for it was a matter of indifference to everybody whether we were intelligent or not. People always interpreted our slightly formal manner and our quiet tastes as a sign that we wished to stay a little apart. This was a matter of indifference, also, and we had our wish. — Marilynne Robinson

I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood. — Sylvia Plath

We are always told that honesty and truth are the shining ideals. But sometimes the truth could be used as a punishment. — Joshua Gaylord

Exchange love for hate ... Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising. — Maya Angelou

You'll fail at some things - that's a learning experience that you need so that you can take that on to the next experience. What you learn from those challenges and those failures are what will get you past the next ones ... I was the pretty consistent bull and the cheerleader on eBay actually. — Pierre Omidyar

Home again, I can groan, scratch, and talk to myself. — Mason Cooley

Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart. — Anne Rice

But some of these young folks are different, and they want times to be hard so they can prove something. Who they want to prove it to I just can't say. — Wiley Cash

They were cunning,deceitful,arrogant and nearly incomprehensible,especially the Anglos. They were dangerous because they hid their thoughts,hid their feelings behind a smiling face. Who could tell what was really going on in their heads? They said one thing and thought another. Who knew what rancid thing lived ,curled up,in the space between words and thoughts. — Louise Penny

What if these events the Bible says will happen, happens in our lifetime? — Joel C. Rosenberg

You brothers-such a nest of rivalries. I warned him to make you sisters, that it would make things more civilized. He thought I was joking, I wasn't. - Malcador — Chris Wraight