Betulla Bianca Quotes

#1. Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the new generations have all to learn. There may possibly be books without a polished language, but there can be no polished language without books.

Samuel Johnson

#2. We are the Dragon-Hearted.

Rachel L. Schade

#3. My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Lionel Barber

#4. You aren't responsible for what other people do, good or bad. Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.

Alexandra Bracken

#5. There's nothing wrong with a youthful prospective. Don't forget- no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories you have to tell.

Charles De Lint

#6. We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.

Florence King

#7. Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.

Thornton Wilder

#8. Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or, worse, their pride in what they thought America had become. There was no great moral self-congratulation in having elected a president from Arkansas.

Charlie Pierce