Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Quotes

#1. The lad, like many another, owed nothing to his father but his mere existence - Heaven knows whether that gift is oftenest a curse or a boon.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

#2. The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They're right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes life richer. You feel more alive, less cocooned.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#3. It would help the poor people who need jobs. Minimum wage is a mandate. We're against mandates so why should we have it? It would be very beneficial.

Ron Paul

#4. The man was remarkably . . . well, homely. Ugly, not to put too fine a point on it. His face was deeply pitted with scars, obviously the victim of a terrible case of adolescent acne. He wore horn-rimmed glasses and had thinning brown hair, round shoulders, a pigeon chest.

Joseph Finder

#5. It is a great mistake to say that the Chinese are not hospitable. A more graceful, hearty hospitality than that of the Chinese I have met in no land.

Lottie Moon

#6. You're way too serious for your own good. I personally think you suffer from middle-child syndrome. You know, you're filled with insecurities and phobias, and you have this need to constantly prove yourself.

Julie Garwood

#7. It is one of my decided opinions that married people ought to have no one, be the tie ever so close and dear, living permanently with them, to break the sacred duality - no, let me say the unity of their home.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

#8. L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.

Kelly Macdonald

#9. I have seen many a face that was more good-looking - never one that looked half so good.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

#10. The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.

Annie Besant

#11. [It] was the first time in my life I ever knew the meaning of that rare thing, tenderness. A quality different from kindliness, affectionateness, or benevolence; a quality which can exist only in strong, deep, and undemonstrative natures, and therefore in its perfection is oftenest found in men.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

#12. Manhood had come to him, both in character and demeanour, not as it comes to most young lads, an eagerly-desired and presumptuously-asserted claim, but as a rightful inheritance, to be received humbly, and worn simply and naturally.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

#13. Everybody lies about sex.

Robert A. Heinlein

#14. The vicar, a gentle, middle-aged man, was always the last to hear anything.

Agatha Christie

#15. I had never really dated. I've always been a relationship kind of person.

Bruce Willis

#16. A preface is usually an excrescence on a good book, and a vain apology for a worthless one;

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

#17. Forgotten? No, we never do forget:
We let the years go; wash them clean with tears,
Leave them to bleach out in the open day,
Or lock them careful by, like dead friends' clothes,
Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,
But we forget not, never can forget.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

#18. I felt a weight on my chest; a sense of hot indignation which settled down into inconceivable melancholy.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

#19. The sheriff listened uneasily to a sound, very uncommon at elections, of the populace expressing an opinion contrary to that of the lord of the soil.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

#20. smack smack honey smacks its the snack that will smack you back

Adam West