Empty Playground Quotes

#1. Our debates, for the most part, are examples unworthy of a playground: name-calling, verbal slaps, gossip, giggles, all while the swings and slides of governance remain empty.

Toni Morrison

#2. I find my voice and manage to say those three one-syllable words back to him. Words I haven't uttered in a very, very long time. Words that meant nothing before now.

Emily Giffin

#3. I felt that I admired you, but I told myself it was only friendship; and till I began to make comparisons between yourself and Lucy, I did not know how far I was got.

Jane Austen

#4. I have been an Anarchist all my life,

Buenaventura Durruti

#5. But if I wasn't playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away.

Paul Gascoigne

#6. Kids shouting and skidding in the playground with no idea what future Hells awaited them: boring jobs and ruinous mortgages and bad marriages and hair loss and hip replacements and lonely cups of coffee in an empty house and a colostomy bag at the hospital.

Donna Tartt

#7. That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!

Daniel Clowes

#8. This war on terror is bogus.

Michael Meacher

#9. I think we will become disenchanted with the glamour of globalization.

Vandana Shiva

#10. Learn to recognize power in others. Become more conscious of your own power. It's there.

Brandon Mull

#11. The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.

Pope Gregory I

#12. Hollywood Joohn Tatum? He does at least 6,000 sit ups and 10,000 pushups a day!

Scott D. Anthony