"The thing to do,' I said as we gained the lane that leads to Beech Green and Fairacre, 'is to get absolutely everything in the summer and lock it in a cupboard. Then order every scrap of food from a shop the week before Christmas and sit back and enjoy watching everyone else go mad. I've been meaning to do it for years."

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Source : Miss Read (2001). “Village School”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Miss Read

#Summer Quotes #Order Quotes #Years Quotes

“Exercise, not philosophically and with religious gravity undertaken, but with the wild and romping activities of a spirited girl who runs up and down as if her veins were full of wine.”

Source : "The Arts of Beauty".
“The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.”
“Sometimes, there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it. Like my heart's going to cave in.”

Source : "Fictional character: Ricky Fitts". "American Beauty", www.imdb.com. 1999.
“Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets.”
“Clearly, the left-wing groups want to use this carbon theme as a tool for wealth redistribution.”

Source : "Poland rejects global carbon communism". motls.blogspot.ru. October 04, 2009.
“The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.”
“Daniel Radcliffe told me once that you should always keep the people around you that you know are going to tell you the truth.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“it is a mistake to talk of the twilight of age, or the blurred sight of old people. The long day grows clearer at its close, and the petty fogs of prejudice which rose between us and our fellows in youth melt away as the sun goes down. At last we see God's creatures as they are.”

Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.129, Vanderbilt University Press

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