Zydeco Bend Quotes & Sayings

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge. — John Locke

Our love of home is in turn an acknowledgement of the degree to which our identity is not self. — Alain De Botton

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history. — Tony Kushner

You never have the sort of friends you have when you're fifteen ever again. Even if you keep them for the rest of your life, it's never the same as it was then. — Fredrik Backman

We become so accustomed to meet with injustice, and, if we are at all sincere with our own hearts, are so conscious of being guity of it ourselves, that we learn to look upon it almost as a necessity. — Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Women were considered the snare of the Devil, while at the same time the cult of the Virgin made one woman the central object of love and adoration. — Barbara W. Tuchman

I am only about winning and getting better. — Daley Thompson

Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world government, will not guarantee survival in an age when population presses natural resources to the limit and when the knowledge of how to work mischief on a planetary scale is ever more widely diffused among peoples who may grow ever more desperate. — Poul Anderson

A cesspoolful of rotting monsters behind his slow boyish smile. — Vladimir Nabokov

There was a code, and though it was mostly unspoken, I absorbed it early on. You always put all the trout back in the water alive except for a few to eat. You didn't count your trout or call attention to their size or weight. You took time to watch and enjoy seeing your partners catch trout. — Howard Frank Mosher