Top 72 Borden Quotes
#1. My mothering needed a tad more Mother Theresa and a lot less Lizzy Borden.
Irene Tomkinson
#2. And if I fucked you, it'd be forceful, wouldn't it?" "Well, that's what rape is, Borden. Forceful." He shrugged. "You can have consensual forceful fucking, right?
R.J. Lewis
#3. The way to goodness," Borden had said, "is one of sacrifice. He who sacrifices will have it a hundred times returned.
Michelle Hoover
#4. But things were changing. Everywhere one looked the boundary between the moral and the wicked seemed to be degrading. Elizabeth Cady Stanton argued in favor of divorce. Clarence Darrow advocated free love. A young woman named Borden killed her parents.
Erik Larson
#6. The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.
Kenneth Tynan
#7. Consider me your rescuer, not your jailer," he said to Frankie, without looking at her. His gut told him that, on the criminal mastermind scale, this one landed closer to Tinker Bell than Lizzie Borden.
Roxanne Snopek
#8. Barefoot, exhausted and bloody, Harris Borden turned and left the underground prison that had been his home for the past twelve years and walked out into the Nevada desert.
Glen Robinson
#9. I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.
[Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.]
Gail Borden
#10. I don't know whether Mrs. Borden is out or in; I wish you would see if she is in her room.
Lizzie Andrew Borden
#12. We wasted little time wondering how anyone, even Lizzie, could nurse for five years a smoldering, mounting, murderous hate for anyone as uninteresting as Abby Borden ... we did, however, attach grave importance to Lizzie's 'peculiar spells.
Victoria Lincoln
#13. There are three times in a man's life when he has the right to yell at the moon-when he marries; when his children come; and when he finishes a job he had to be crazy to start.
Borden Chase
#14. The story of our human lineage is continually enlarged, almost daily, by discoveries from physical anthropology, archeology, and genetics.
Richard J. Borden
#15. Children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.
Mary Borden
#16. I think he came to the front door and rang the bell, and Maggie let him in, and he said he had forgotten his key; so I think she must have been down stairs.
Lizzie Andrew Borden
#18. How our attitudes are shaped and defended may be more changeable than we realize.
Richard J. Borden
#20. I thought I would go out, and see if the air would make me feel any better.
Lizzie Andrew Borden
#23. If you aren't outraged, then you just aren't paying attention
Lisa Borden
#24. Sometimes, when we are far from clocks and schedules, we can still recapture a lost sense of place-based time. On a relaxing camping trip or a long day outdoors, perhaps, we can slip back into the rhythm of the sun.
Richard J. Borden
#25. When I first came down stairs, for two or three minutes I went down cellar to the water closet.
Lizzie Andrew Borden
#28. If ten men are carrying a log - nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end - and you want to help, which end will you lift on?
William Whiting Borden
#29. The rumor that the state of my health will necessitate my resignation is entirely unfounded.
Frederick William Borden
#30. I have no intention of resigning, and confidently expect to resume official duties within three months.
Frederick William Borden
#31. She said she was going out, and would get the dinner. That is the last I saw her, or said anything to her.
Lizzie Andrew Borden
#33. These Ginnie Maes suck. They get longer [in maturity] when rates go up, and shorter when rates go down, and nobody wants them
Michael Lewis
#34. You know there's only two things more beautiful than a good gun
a Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere.
Borden Chase
#35. The inventions of microscopy and telescopy shattered the boundaries of ordinary human perception and fueled the scientific revolution.
Richard J. Borden
#38. Gymnastics demands so much of our time. We train all week and travel and compete on weekends. The people you're surrounded by really become your second family, your best friends, your sisters. My coach was like a second mother for me.
Amanda Borden
#39. Ecological awareness expands the context of life; it also enlarges who we are as a person.
Richard J. Borden
#40. It is a pity we do not die when our lives are finished.
Mary Borden
#41. Viewing ecology through the lens of individual life histories or the life cycles of species makes it easy to grasp the Hindu conception of life as drama. Every creature and plant has a separate path of sustenance and survival on the way to their final dance with Shiva.
Richard J. Borden
#42. Discovering the threads that constitute actual interactions is an essential means of making sense of the world. But perception of overall patterns of things that are contextually related is equally important.
Richard J. Borden
#44. The average American child, by age eighteen, is estimated to have seen eighteen thousand murders and two hundred thousand acts of violence on television. The "death play" of popular video games is accelerating these numbers to ever-higher levels.
Richard J. Borden
#45. Gymnastics, for me, gave me a lot of self-pride: that drive to want to be great at something for myself. But it also gave me a sense of appreciation toward God. Now that I'm getting older, I really appreciate the talents God gave me. Not just physically, but mentally and emotionally.
Amanda Borden
#46. I see no reason why I should not live on indefinitely just as I have done, and on the whole I am more comfortable here than in Purgatory, a place that I imagine to be like the suburbs of London.
Mary Borden
#47. I really believe that God puts things in front of you for a reason, even if you don't always appreciate it in the moment.
Amanda Borden
#48. I always went to my sister, because she was older and had the care of me after my mother died.
Lizzie Andrew Borden
#49. My parents never forced things on my brother and me: not our faith, not our sports, not our friends. Yet they taught us about surrounding ourselves with the right people: the kind of people we want to be.
Amanda Borden
#50. Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.
Lizzie Andrew Borden
#51. Wow. That's sort of pretty. In a Jaws kind of way.
Jim Butcher
#52. Unlike the clonal longevity of asexual organisms, sexually reproduced plants and animals usually have briefer, individual life cycles. In short, the enormous diversity afforded by the evolutionary invention of sexual reproduction came with a price - death of the individual.
Richard J. Borden
#54. One of the most remarkable contributions of humans to the world is our capacity for ideas.
Richard J. Borden
#55. My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter.
Lizzie Andrew Borden
#56. Here I was with the guy I maybe-loved, relaxing by the ocean with salty crisp breezes and blue-gray sea curving into a for-ever horizon. We even had background music to add to the romantic ambience. And except for the "can't kiss because he's my brother" thing, this was the perfect romantic moment.
Linda Joy Singleton
#58. I said I thought first I was on the stairs; then I remembered I was in the kitchen when he came in.
Lizzie Andrew Borden
#59. I know what she used to do sometimes. She kept her best cape she wore on the street in there, and she used occasionally to go up there to get it and to take it into her room. She kept a great deal in the guest room drawers.
Lizzie Andrew Borden
#60. I don't know what I have said. I have answered so many questions and I am so confused I don't know one thing from another. I am telling you just as nearly as I know.
Lizzie Andrew Borden
#61. Love, is it? First you lose your appetite, then you lose your tongue, then you take leave of your senses, and that's love!
Mary Borden
#64. She wielded it easily, lightly. She carried it swinging like a baseball bat, only with more poetry to it. It was a frightening thing to watch, this small shadow of billowing grey fabric and sprawling, wild hair splaying out behind her, the axe held at the ready with both hands, poised and prepared.
Cherie Priest
#65. My passion for human ecology was not a drive for closure - but rather the joy of endless openings and newfound connections. There is no final goal or perfect completion, only the expanding experience of being alive.
Richard J. Borden
#66. All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once.
Jim Butcher
#67. Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron.
Lizzie Andrew Borden
#68. I am a woman. My life is a long, strong, twisted rope, made up of a number of human relationships, nothing more.
Mary Borden
#69. Never like seein' strangers. Guess it's cause no stranger ever good newsed me.
Borden Chase
#70. True creativity is more likely if you are more relaxed
Harry Borden
#72. Death is universal. The rituals associated with it, however, vary substantially - and are greatly influenced by their religious and cultural context.
Richard J. Borden
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