At Home In Mitford Quotes

#1. Adversity Isn't to Be Avoided

Miles Anthony Smith

#2. Chrissie Hynde is the coolest woman alive, and no man can have her.

Shawn Amos

#3. When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.

Nancy Mitford

#4. The only direction Obama has the economy moving is backward.

Bob Beauprez

#5. As a child, growing up in Hampstead, North London, I was shockingly fair-skinned. Holidays involved me spending the second and third day face-down on a bed, shrieking should anyone touch my blistered skin.

Jane Green

#6. I judge a woman and a horse by the same criteria: legs, head and rear end.

Elizabeth Arden

#7. Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love.

Virgil

#8. Fasten and hold knowledge and then protect it." He was asked that how couldit be fastened, and he replied: "by writing and scribing it

Anonymous

#9. When the slaughtered Lamb is seen 'in the midst of' the divine throne in heaven (5:6; cf. 7:17), the meaning is that Christ's sacrificial death belongs to the way God rules the world.

Richard Bauckham

#10. You've got to keep an open mind.

Chris Wallace

#11. In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

May Sarton

#12. Every gesture was one of disorder and violence, as if a lioness had come into the room.

Anais Nin

#13. White angel wings, made up from thousands of short feathers, now surrounded him.

"Uh. Bird?" She pointed dumbly, unable to form a single coherent though more.
"Harpie." He gave her a glare that could have killed.

Constance Sharper

#14. I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.

Eddie Van Halen

#15. MITFORD BOOKS BY JAN KARON At Home in Mitford A Light in the Window These High, Green Hills Out to Canaan A New Song A Common Life In This Mountain Shepherds Abiding Light from Heaven Home to Holly Springs In the Company of Others Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

Jan Karon

#16. The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Karl Marx