Burrich's Quotes

#1. We all perish in our last attempt to live.

Robin Hobb

#2. A woman would always prefer to be remembered than forgotten.

Ken Follett

#3. In the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence ...

Vincent De Paul

#4. Only when I hold onto nothing can I be the best, only then can I be what they expect me to be.

Ally Condie

#5. The care he always took with his own appearance and behavior. "Just because you cannot see a woman does not mean she does not see you." Oh, Burrich. The extra time he still took, grooming a horse that she seldom rode anymore.

Robin Hobb

#6. Burrich told me that the ax was not a sophisticated weapon, but was a very satisfactory one if used correctly.

Robin Hobb

#7. But things coming out of her, visible to the world? It was in a strange way another loss. You gave things away you couldn't afford to lose. Private things. You showed yourself and you couldn't take it back.

Janet Fitch

#8. There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn't always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came from endurance, where the well ran deep and quiet. Sometimes it came from compassion and forgiveness.

Ann Aguirre

#9. It's as clear as the balls on a tall dog.

Steven Tyler

#10. A mathematics teacher is a midwife to ideas.

George Polya

#11. Burrich the Stablemaster, the man who raised me, once warned me, "When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead." I

Robin Hobb

#12. Lies, my dear boy, can easily be recognized. There are two kind of them: those with short legs, and those with long noses. Your kind have long noses.

Carlo Collodi

#13. She asked me if the schoolteacher and the horsemaster were still at odds, and by this I discerned that Burrich and Galen's challenge at the Witness Stones had become something of a local legend already. I assured her that peace had been restored. We spent

Robin Hobb

#14. I'm not possessed about owning the Buffalo Bills, just as I wasn't possessed about owning the Buffalo Sabres.

Tom Golisano

#15. There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.

Muriel Rukeyser

#16. I idly wished for something else, for any situation that was neither this forsaken chamber nor the tenseness of Burrich's room. For a restfulness that perhaps I had once known somewhere else but could no longer recall. And so I drowsed into oblivion.

Robin Hobb

#17. That night I grasped another piece of the puzzle that Burrich had always been to me. For there is a very strange peace in giving over your judgment to someone else, to saying to them, You lead and I will follow, and I will trust entirely that you will not lead me to death or harm.

Robin Hobb

#18. Call me Ishmael. I won't answer to it, because it's not my name.

Jenny Lawson

#19. When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.

Haruki Murakami

#20. Cable made the Food Network possible. It was invented in 1993 by Reese Schoenfeld, a co-founder of CNN, who was convinced that its natural audience was women - millions of them.

Bill Buford

#21. My father never talked about the sacrifices that the family made for me.

Novak Djokovic