Cranborne Quotes

#1. Lord Cranborne told the leader of the opposition to 'back me or sack me' - he succeeded in doing both.

Tony Blair

#2. But of course, all of this is just a silly fad, and when you add an "e" to fad, you get fade. And I predict this fad will fade.

Andrew Clements

#3. People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection.

Amitav Ghosh

#4. I had to tell Dad, 'It will be okay and be positive; keep praying and have faith'. I have always known about cancer, but to be around someone who has it and to see what it does in such a short space of time was hard. It makes you think about your life, about what is important.

Jermain Defoe

#5. SEX! Now that I have your attention ... Please try to meditate at least 15 minutes, every day. You know it's good for you.

Marcelo Goianira

#6. I maintain that the past record of my race is a true index of the feelings which today animate them. They bear toward their former masters no revengeful thoughts, no hatreds, no animosities. They aim not to elevate themselves by sacrificing one single interest of their white fellow-citizens.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#7. Things, however, rarely happened the way you understood them. Mostly they just sort of drove up alongside what you thought was the case and then moved randomly down some other way.

Lorrie Moore

#8. He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.

Khaled Hosseini

#9. You sweet ... beautiful ... lunatic, he heard himself mutter.

Lisa Kleypas

#10. I'd learned not to put a question mark where God put a period.

Cupcake Brown

#11. Anything that encourages a boy to open a book, in a world of more violent and therefore more compelling video games, is something I'm going to pay for.

Russell Smith

#12. There are still journalists who risk their lives in situations of conflict, versus those who sit behind a desk at 'News of the World' to report on whether someone is going out with somebody or not.

Romola Garai

#13. Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was.

John Suckling

#14. You're beautiful," he said.
"I'm as big as cow."
"A beautiful cow."
She chuckled. "I'm fat."
"You're not fat."
(Stella & Beau)

Rachel Gibson