Jeanne Birdsall famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

And I don't know if Batty's gotten over it yet,' said Skye. Mr. Penderwick looked out the window to where Batty was playing vampires with Hound. Hound was on his back, trying to wiggle out of the black towel Batty had tied around his neck. Batty was leaping over Hound's water bowl, shrieking, 'Blood, blood!' 'She looks all right,' he said.
-- Jeanne Birdsall

#Blood #Water #Black
Donit kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her," said Jeffrey.
-- Jeanne Birdsall

#Gone #Trouble #Rescue
The referee told me this league has never had a brawl of that magnitude," said Mr. Penderwick after a long, painful silence. "Of course, at the time I was pretending to be a casual passerby and not a father at all.
-- Jeanne Birdsall

#Father #League #Long
...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons. - Mr. Penderwick
-- Jeanne Birdsall

#Selfish #Deceit #Tiny
The cuter the boy, the mushier your brain.
-- Jeanne Birdsall

#Boys #Brain
People sometimes make unexpected choices when they're lonely
-- Jeanne Birdsall

#Lonely #People #Choices
Am I odd?Is there something wrong with me,like Mrs.Tifton Said?" Skye knelt down on the wet grass and looked straight into Batty's eyes. "No you stupid idiot,there's nothing wrong. with you.
-- Jeanne Birdsall

#Stupid #Eye #Idiot
[The kitchen] was also messy--delightfully so, thought Jane--and it didn't look as though lots of cooking went on there. There was a laptop computer on the counter with duck stickers on it, the spice cabinet was full of Ben's toy trucks, and Jane couldn't spot a cookbook anywhere. This is the kitchen of a Thinker, she decided, and promised herself that she'd never bother with cooking, either.
-- Jeanne Birdsall

#Ducks #Cooking #Kitchen

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.
The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?
With luck, a writer capable of producing both Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb will not remain unappreciated for long.
The sin against blood and race is the hereditary sin in this world and it brings disaster on every nation that commits it.
The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood.
In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.
One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he was supposed to be starting a militaristic revolution he was wearing evening dress and an ill-fitting black tailcoat...and his army medals.
I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.
Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish holocaust or Black slavery, and YET praise the benefits to Germans or Whites??? This convenient ambiguity at the expense of animals is unacceptable!!!
Black smoke, the flickering sister of fire.

Jeanne Birdsall famous quotes

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