Coveted Possession Quotes

#1. Older Scout: [narrating] Neighbors bring food with death, and flowers with sickness, and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a knife, and our lives.

Harper Lee

#2. The history of every individual man should be a Bible.

Novalis

#3. I hope that I have had some effect on the fact that Israel is a start-up nation.

Dan Shechtman

#4. A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

Frank A. Clark

#5. Shoving hot bread up a roasting bird's ass & feasting on it seems like an apt celebration of colonialism.

Sherman Alexie

#6. Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game.

Pete Rose

#7. A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Alfred Hitchcock

#8. I am glad to have found and have knowledge of a love that could transcend time even if it was Forbidden.

E.L.R. Jones Formerly, Now Ellie Keys

#9. Taking command of HMS Portland is definitely the highlight of my 16 years in the Navy. It is a challenge that I am fully trained for and ready to undertake.

Sarah West

#10. Blunt turned to the man in question with a helpless grin, "You have always proven yourself a mystery to me, good fellow!"
Falconer lifted one corner of his mouth, "Then I have succeeded, Blunt.

Nicole Sager

#11. Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each other, and write in their own patch, as it were.

William Golding

#12. The fragile and ancient hurt that seeps out of adults when they speak
of wronged childhoods.

Martin Roper

#13. Philippe to his mother "do stop chasing after a carriage that has a runaway mare.

E.L.R. Jones Formerly, Now Ellie Keys