"If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes."

-- John Marsden

#Significant Quotes #Episodes Quotes #Minutes Quotes

“For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.”

Source : Nicholas Culpeper (1698). “The English Physician Enlarged: With Three Hundred Sixty and Nine Medicines, Made of English Herbs, that Were Not in Any Impression Until This. Being an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation; Containing a Compleat Method of Physick, Whereby a Ma May Preserve His Body in Health, Or Cure Himself, Being Sick, for Three Pence Charge, with Such Things Only as Grow in England, They Being Most Fit for English Bodies. Herein is Also Shewed These Seven Things, Viz. 1. The Way of Making Plaisters, Oyntments, Oyls, Pultisses, Syrups, Decoctions, Juleps Or Waters, of All Sorts of Physical Herbs, ... 7. The Way of Mixing Medicines According to the Cause and Mixture of the Disease, and Part of the Body Afflicted. By Nich. Culpeper, Gent. Student in Physick and Astrology”, p.273
“America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.”

Source : Francis Parkman (1868). “France and England in North America”, p.19
“In the end, in England, when you want to find out how people are feeling, you always go to the pubs.”
“For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with youâ€¦ I have no name.”

Source : Diana Gabaldon (2012). “The Outlander Series 7-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone”, p.1900, Dell
“But do let me reiterate the spirit of Michigan. It is based upon a deathless loyalty to Michigan and all her ways; an enthusiasm that makes it second nature for Michigan men to spread the gospel of their university to the world's distant outposts; a conviction that nowhere is there a better university, in any way, than this Michigan of ours.”
“I'm very forgiving so I forgive most things, really.”
“I've always been a very outdoors sort of girl. I'm more a tomboy than a girly girl.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The cat: an animal that's so unpredictable, you can never tell in advance how it will ignore you the next time.”

"If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes."

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