Top 100 Cabot Quotes
#1. Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John Cabot discovered America by looking for cod.
Graydon Carter
#2. Cabot Searcy began to care about learning not for the sake of making good grades, but because he still wanted to change the world.
John Corey Whaley
#3. The last human of importance the American people have been able to keep in the working end of their brain is your own Chicago triggerman, Dillinger. After him they kind of lost hold on keeping who's who straight. So don't be surprised if they don't remember who Cabot Wright is, or if they do.
James Purdy
#4. Meg Cabot is the best author ever
Meg Cabot
#5. I find a lot of poetry very disappointing, but I do have poets that I go back to. One book of poetry that I'd like to mention is 'The Exchange' by Sophie Cabot Black. Her poems are difficult without being too difficult.
Billy Collins
#6. Kei: Is there anything else you need while I'm here, Your Highness?
Cabot: No, but you can leave the sarcasm in there.
Stefne Miller
#7. If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of America.
Henry David Thoreau
#8. As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia.
Harry Johnston
#9. At sixty miles per hour, you could pass our farm in a minute, on County Road 686, which ran due north into the T intersection at Cabot Street Road.
Jane Smiley
#10. That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.
Henry David Thoreau
#11. I am reminded by my journey how exceedingly new this country still is. You have only to travel for a few days into the interior and back parts even of many of the old States, to come to that very America which the Northmen, and Cabot, and Gosnold, and Smith, and Raleigh visited.
Henry David Thoreau
#12. Take that back to the GP, Mr. Cabot. And should the urge arise, feel free to tell them to fuck off.
Chloe Neill
#13. For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.
Henry Cabot Lodge
#14. They really do look gold.How is that even possible?How can someone have golden eyes?
Meg Cabot
#15. Everyone knows you only want to look at the sinkhole because you love a good disaster. Get back to work, Fuller. I don't pay you for your looks.
Meg Cabot
#16. This is not to say that I wasn't completely repulsed. I mean, I wasn't exactly proud that my stepbrother
was in there tongue wrestling with the second stupidest person in our class, after himself.
Meg Cabot
#17. Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?
Henry Cabot Lodge
#18. I like to think of my books and the movies of my books living in two separate universes. Each is very nice, but only one is correct - the book. But that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the other versions, and I always do.
Meg Cabot
#19. Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or parents will complain - believe me, I've tried.
Meg Cabot
#20. No offense, but if you want to be with my niece, you should think about getting a haircut. My mother is very conservative."
"No offense taken," John said mildly.
Meg Cabot
#21. I'm not some shy virginal college student who only owns one shirt.
Meg Cabot
#22. I wonder what it's like to live in Tinaville. I get the feeling it's very shiny there.
Meg Cabot
#23. Parenthood is the most difficult, demanding job in the entire world,
Meg Cabot
#24. To keep one's marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up. - Ogden Nash
Meg Cabot
#25. So take my advice: whatever you do? Don't blink
Meg Cabot
#26. Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job's got to get done and they're the only ones left to do it
Meg Cabot
#27. I don't think he could ever be a serial killer. He's way too shy. That Ted Bundy guy, he was pretty outgoing , from what I heard. -Jess about Doug p. 107
Meg Cabot
#28. Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America.
Henry Cabot Lodge
#29. Am I really not worth shaving for?
Meg Cabot
#30. If your head is constantly stuck in a book, you're going to miss a lot.
Meg Cabot
#31. Oh my god, she said are you going to be reasonable about this?
Meg Cabot
#32. Jesse, this is Craig. Craig, Jesse. You two should get along. Jesse's dead,
too.
Meg Cabot
#33. If you want to live forever, figure out what it is that you feel passionate about, then follow that dream.
Meg Cabot
#34. [while toasting] To blow jobs we want back
Meg Cabot
#35. Cal: "Could you write a little bigger? I'm not sure China saw that."
Every Boy's Got One
Meg Cabot
#36. I always thought when I became an adult everything would become less confusing, but unfortunately, everything's only becoming more confusing.
Meg Cabot
#37. Though I imagine in your case, trying not to fall just made you fall harder.
Meg Cabot
#38. My family, they're story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we weren't allowed to watch TV while we ate - we had to sit around the table and tell stories about our day.
Meg Cabot
#39. He was even more overprotective than my stepfather. But in a boyfriend, that kind of thing is actually attractive.
Meg Cabot
#40. My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!
Meg Cabot
#41. Why does anyone commit murder?' he asked in a low voice.
'I-'I blinked.'How should I know?'
'Three reasons,' Christopher said. He held up one finger. 'Love.' Another finger. 'Revenge.' And finally, a third finger. 'Profit ...
Meg Cabot
#42. Sometimes in life, you fall down holes you can't climb out of by yourself. That's what friends and family are for-to help. They can't help, however, unless you let them know you're down there.
Meg Cabot
#43. Good bye AEHS. You suck. I hate you. And yet ... Somehow I'll miss you too.
Meg Cabot
#44. Maybe this is how wars get started, because someone tells someone else to shut up, and then no one will apologize.
Meg Cabot
#45. Well!" the woman cried, offended. "See if I ever come to visit Genovia!" "No one wants you there," Lars informed her
Meg Cabot
#46. Oh my God. I thought I was going to have an aneurysm right there in line. Your hair smells really good? Your hair smells really good? Who did he think he was? James Bond? You don't tell someone their hair smells good. Not in a mall.
Meg Cabot
#47. There are some wives who require but a sentence. There are some who require a book. You, Miss Clarke, would require volumes.
Sally Cabot Gunning
#48. Cabrero, kayla said, narrowing her eyes at Alex. If you do that one more time, I will take this book from you and hit you with it till you're dead. Again.
Meg Cabot
#49. If kisses were what you were looking for, little fool, why didn't you come to me?
quoted by Susannah Simon
Meg Cabot
#51. Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
Henry Cabot Lodge
#52. Jake leaned on the horn, swearing loudly. Gina covered her eyes. Doc flung his arms around me, burying his face in my lap, and Dopey, to my great surprise, began to scream like a girl, very close to my ear ...
Meg Cabot
#53. One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems.
Meg Cabot
#54. But. . . you said we were going to play Parcheezi. . .
Meg Cabot
#55. I looked where he was tapping.
"Local Girl Missing, Feared Dead"
Beneath it was a photo or me-my most recent school photo. "Oh no." My heart filling with dread, i took the paper from Mr. Smith's hands. "Couldn't they have found a better picture?
Meg Cabot
#56. What was I thinking, anyway? It would never work out between the two of us. I mean, I'm a mediator. His dad's a vampire. His uncle's a killer. What if we got married? Think how our kids would turn out ...
Meg Cabot
#57. Did Gran go to a gynecologist? That is totally weird. I never thought about my grandmother's vagina before. I don't want to be thinking about my grandmother's vagina. Not here, at her funeral. In a church. While i'm doing a reading from the Bible.
Meg Cabot
#58. I hope they know how lucky they are to have you. But that doesn't mean I will ever stop trying to have you for myself. You know as well as I do, Meena, that we belong together. I hope that day will come sometime soon. In the meantime: truce.
With all the love in my heart, Lucien
Meg Cabot
#59. Smiles like that should be against the law. Considering what they do to a girl.
Meg Cabot
#60. What's the point? was my attitude. We're all just going to die and then NOT be let on the boat.
Meg Cabot
#61. Lars watches Pretty Little Liars.
Meg Cabot
#62. Religion is about creation, and for that reason religion should be about the earth.
Laurie Cabot
#63. I love the Princess Diaries series! Do you?
Meg Cabot
#64. Honey, some boys stopped by to see you. They had wood.
Meg Cabot
#65. Great. now i was starting to get jealous of myself.
Meg Cabot
#66. Get Mom to stop hanging bras on bedroom doorknob
Meg Cabot
#67. Was it frisson when you saw a guy smile and it made your heart act all weird?
Meg Cabot
#68. And that's that as you get older, you lose things, things you don't necessarily want to lose.
Meg Cabot
#69. Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.
Henry Cabot Lodge
#70. You coulld put girls' boyfriends in jail, and I could teach the immigrants how to dress!!!
Meg Cabot
#71. No Hello.
No Hi, Pierce. Nice right hook you have there.
No It's lovely to see you. Sorry about your counselor being killed last night. Yes, I see your grandmother is a Fury even though I told you none was after you. I guess I was wrong about that.
Just Let's go.
Meg Cabot
#72. I don't do alcohol. Or other people's boyfriends. And don't you forget it.
Meg Cabot
#73. These were things she hadn't felt wile being kissed in a long, long time. Exciting things. Especially when he lowered his head to kiss her again, this time on the throat. That's when she felt that her heart might burst from happiness.
Meg Cabot
#74. It was considerably larger than a knife hilt.
Meg Cabot
#75. I understand you love him and UR down/ But that don't mean you gotta be his clown.
Meg Cabot
#76. I don't understand camping. It's organized inconvenience.) "If
Meg Cabot
#77. What is the appropriate reply to make to a man who says he loves you?
Thank you. You are very kind.
Meg Cabot
#78. Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks
Meg Cabot
#79. To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself
Meg Cabot
#80. Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.
Meg Cabot
#82. But it's there. Just because I haven't told anyone doesn't mean it isn't there, all the time, lurking in the back of my mind, like one those NSync songs you can't get out of your head.
Meg Cabot
#83. The discovery of a corpse's head on campus has worked as an expedient in getting the administrative staff to work before ten, despite the impending blizzard.
Meg Cabot
#84. French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway.
Meg Cabot
#85. Me: "Ngh"
Cal: "Well put."
...... Every Boy's Got One
Meg Cabot
#86. And try to remember what we discussed, Susannah. A mediator is someone who helps others resolve conflicts. Not someone who, er, kicks them in the face.
Meg Cabot
#87. Do not chase boys. Chasing boys is bad. Chasing boys can lead to horrible things like mansions going up into flames, hand amputations, and blindness. So have some self respect and don't let things get too far before the wedding day.
Meg Cabot
#88. I used to draw and illustrate, but I don't do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave the illustrations to actual professional illustrators.
Meg Cabot
#89. Wait. Why am I thinking about Krispy Kremes? We're supposed to be exercising.
Meg Cabot
#90. Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.
Meg Cabot
#91. But I don't care what Megan Fox or Jessica Biel say: There are definite advantages to being the hottest girl on the planet. Number one was that I got paid for it. A lot.
Meg Cabot
#92. You know. Life's short. If you don't try new things, you'll never know what you're best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don't work for you.
Meg Cabot
#93. Why doesn't the CIA hire your grandmother to interrogate terror suspects? She does a much better job than they do of getting classified information.
Meg Cabot
#94. There are nice, funny, totally good-looking guys out there. You just have to know where to look ... and apparently, where NOT to look.
Meg Cabot
#95. Mia, I'm not sorry. And I'll wait.
Love, Michael.
Meg Cabot
#96. I guess we will," I said, wondering how it had gotten to this: my cousin and me, fighting over who was the more powerful witch. I mean, talk about stupid. I
Meg Cabot
#97. You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life.
Henry Cabot Lodge
#98. The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.
Henry Cabot Lodge
#99. Nobody messes with a girl in combat boots, particularly when she's also a vegetarian.
Meg Cabot
#100. You can't look prim and righteous wearing a microscopic miniskirt and mile-high heels. Well it's pretty hard, anyway.
Meg Cabot
