Celia Rees Quotes

#1. We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people.

Iain Duncan Smith

#2. It is no good wishing for what was not to be.

Celia Rees

#3. Don't fear tomorrow, till today's done with you.

Celia Rees

#4. People have ideas. They live in their ideas, do you understand? And those ideas, whatever they happen to be, make all the difference.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#5. Christ is the clue to all that is.

Lesslie Newbigin

#6. One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

#7. Legend gathered around him, swirling around him like a great black cloak.

Celia Rees

#8. As long as I live I'll never forget the time he had a bank president pinched, or rather I did, on no evidence whatever except that the fountain pen on his desk was dry. I was never so relieved in my life as when the guy shot himself an hour later.

Rex Stout

#9. In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine ...

Celia Rees

#10. Those that can heal can harm; those that can cure can kill.

Celia Rees

#11. A man's life breath cannot come back again
no raiders in force, no trading brings it back,
once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.

Homer

#12. When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8 rounds of chemo, one of my first questions admittedly was: 'Will I lose my hair?' It sounds shallow, I know, but it was a very scary image to me.

Amy Robach

#13. You may wish me luck, or curse me for a damnable pirate, but do not look for me. I will be gone to parts beyond the sea.

Celia Rees

#14. I am the unhappiest WordPress user in the world, I think it sucks.

Matt Mullenweg

#15. Violence has been a part of films since the beginning of time. It's been a form of entertainment.

Vanessa Hudgens

#16. Lies are not rooted in the mind in the way truth is.

Celia Rees

#17. This is a boyhood dream, but I've always wanted to play the sheriff. I've wanted to be in a Western, in the hat, playing the sheriff.

Patrick Fabian

#18. I looked into her eyes, and saw my own staring back, the same peculiar shade, pale grey, flecked with yellow, rimmed with black. Now I knew the nature of her debt. It had weighed on her conscience for fourteen years. I was looking into the eyes of mother and I knew that I would never see her again.

Celia Rees

#19. No REGRETS. Just LESSONS learned, BLESSINGS recognized and HUMOR found.

Tanya Masse