"They strip-searched me!" he burst out. "Me! Old enough to be their grandfather and they made me stand naked in the road, my things all unpacked in the mud!"

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Source : Julia Golding (2008). “Dragonfly”, p.257, Marshall Cavendish

Julia Golding

#Grandfather Quotes #Naked Quotes #Mud Quotes

“I took time off from school and traveled to Italy when I was 19, living with my extended family members. I must have slept in 30 different houses those months, taken in by people who'd never even met me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it.”
“He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away. [Lat., Quod petit spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit.]”
“Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.”
“Thackwell really can metaphorically coast home now”
“My only good result in 1997 was marrying Brooke Shields.”
“Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.”
“I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.”

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