Curbstone Quotes

#1. Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind - your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work.

Mark Twain

#2. Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.

Walter Annenberg

#3. Look closely. The beautiful may be small.

Immanuel Kant

#4. New York has always embraced me.

Bernardo Bertolucci

#5. Pardon me, but my father says that it is a lie that Americans have everything. You have no sheep, no goats, no trees, no oil, no vines, no wine, not even chickens. He asks, 'What kind of life is that?' He says, 'No wonder you don't sing or dance or recite poetry very often.

Robert Fulghum

#6. It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be.

Henry James

#7. Know that as a Christian, your destiny is to be Christlike in all of your ways.

Joyce Meyer

#8. Money almost always ends up disappointing.
Buying things to give lasing satisfaction is an illusion. Money can't buy happiness. The people with the most money are often times the MOST miserable people.

Lisa Bedrick

#9. I am Taiwanese as well as Chinese.

Ma Ying-jeou

#10. If President Obama really means what he has said repeatedly about supporting the aspirations of the Egyptian people, then he will have to recognize that in Egypt today, as in America in 1963, that can mean opposing government policy.

Cynthia P. Schneider

#11. We're good," said Rose, sounding faintly disgusted. "Get into the digestive tract of the hybrid dead woman. Everything's fine.

Seanan McGuire