Catherine Called Birdy Quotes

#1. She must not look too proud nor yet too humble, lest people say she is proud of her humility."

Excerpt From: "Catherine, Called Birdy.

Karen Cushman

#2. To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

Petrarch

#3. At first I was exhilarated by my freedom from the responsibility of the kingship. This lasted about seven minutes. I was also depressed by my freedom from marriage, for I had become accustomed to the attentions of a woman. This lasted about nine minutes. Then I was bored.

Piers Anthony

#4. Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist.

Lon Milo DuQuette

#5. God made His own Son to be sin that He might make the sinner a saint.

Oswald Chambers

#6. Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this ... will without much labour be effected.

Edmond Halley

#7. If you look good outside, you will feel powerful inside.

Jo Raven

#8. I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.

Garth Nix

#9. When you choose self-love, you are reclaiming your awareness of your own power, which raises your vibrational energy and contributes to your healing.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#10. If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere.

Nathaniel Branden

#11. I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

Franz Kafka

#12. Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

Victor Hugo

#13. There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.

Henry Ward Beecher

#14. I rode 300 miles through the forest and ate all sorts of strange food. And every time 'Torak' did something new, like swimming with killer whales or kayaking, I thought I'd better go and do it.

Michelle Paver

#15. Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?

Edna St. Vincent Millay