Wellingtons Quotes & Sayings

My older brother, Lucas, is twenty and away at college."
"Those are pretty normal names."
"Normal?"
"No Chets or Wellingtons or anything."
He raises one eyebrow. "Do you know any Wellingtons?"
"Of course not, but you probably do."
"No, actually I don't. — Kasie West

Students sometimes turn up at my course and they look a bit like they're going to Bali with only Wellingtons and a map, and they never leave their hotel room because they didn't think to bring a bikini. I'm full of bizarre analogies like that. — Louise Wilson

It's okay not to be okay. — Michael Clifford

Your Western ideas about love are ridiculous. A woman is put on earth to please a man and a man should have many women, and a woman should only have one man. — Kelli O'Hara

It's rather an exhilarating feeling. It's 6 or 7 when you get up and go out into the fields wearing your Wellingtons or high boots. You know that at this very hour half the nation does the same thing, which gives you, with the benefit of hindsight, a satisfaction in doing those things, too, a knowledge, a sense of the nation. I was a city boy until then. — Joseph Brodsky

But it was not the note that counted so much as the writing of it.
Just because it wouldn't last forever out there didn't mean it hadn't
existed. that's why I was there. I was there for a moment. And
because of a string of beautiful moments spent at that very same
place, moments I would keep inside me wherever I went. — Amanda Howells

She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo. — Ellen Hopkins

Every journey we take requires a good pair of wellingtons because there are some thorns and puddles along the way. — Euginia Herlihy

I truly hope we have opened yet another door for women to share what they have been told they couldn't. — Naava Pasternak Swirsky

It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul. — Amelia Barr

Very little evidence was found that any individual fund was able to do significantly better than that which we expected from mere random chance. — Michael Jensen

I am flushed and warm.
I think I may be enormous,
I am so stupidly happy,
My wellingtons
Squelching and squelching through the beautiful red. — Sylvia Plath

The fly angler who says they have never, ever fallen while wading , is either a pathogenic liar, or has never been fly-fishing. — Jimmy Moore

Being poor with three small children is terrifying. You can't make any plans. You know you're not going on holiday, ever. There's no way you could ever afford driving lessons or a car. And the guilt I used to feel: they had holes in their shoes, and at one point, I had to send them to school wearing Wellingtons when the sun was shining. — Sue Townsend

If you don't want to cry about the state of the economy, why not laugh instead? This book is an ideal introduction to the subject for anybody who thinks they ought to understand what's happening around them but is put off by the usual dense text and economics jargon. — Diane Coyle