"Nestor beckoned to me and I dismounted with care.I handed the reins to the boy with thanks. I do not wish to see that hard-charging bag of bones again, unless it is in my soup."

-- Tamora Pierce

#Boys Quotes #Wish Quotes #Bags Quotes

“So thoughtlessly we sling on our destinies.”

Source : Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.28, Atlantic Monthly Press
“The little vices of the great must needs be accounted very great.”
“When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.”
“A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery. But it does have to be furnished with things that mean something to you.”
“There's still another problem which puzzles a lot of people - whether or not a baby will come within the budget. Our sentimental advice is to have one anyway, if you want one and have been through the marriage ceremony. The people who wait till they can afford a baby seldom have one at all except by surprise.”

Source : Marjorie Hillis (2011). “Orchids On Your Budget: Or Live Smartly on What You Have”, p.37, Hachette UK
“It sounds bad, but they don't care about your age if you're famous.”
“The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.”

Source : Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.
“While passenger numbers have doubled in the past 20 years, the industry remains scandalously inefficient.”

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