Building Forts Quotes

#1. As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.

Janet Echelman

#2. I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.

Mother Teresa

#3. He wasn't constituted to hate himself subjectively, but he did hate the object he was in the world.

Jonathan Franzen

#4. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Yann Martel

#5. What am I going to say to the lady's maid when she sees this?"
He considered that for a moment. "Alas?" he suggested.

Lisa Kleypas

#6. What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks
And formless ruin of oblivion.

William Shakespeare

#7. Merry's mind devolved into chaos. Ideas evaded her. Words chased one another into meaningless jumbles. Her breath came in shallow gasps as the ghastly image of William's lifeless body twisting in the wind, solidified and held.

Susan Catalano

#8. I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman.

Margaret Mead

#9. The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.

Jonathan Franzen