Family Emergency Quotes

#1. Professor Lyall said, "His lordship did say something about dealing with an embarrassing family emergency." "Am I not family?" wondered Lady Maccon. To which Lyall muttered under his breath, "And often embarrassing.

Gail Carriger

#2. To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the responsibility to acquire information, digest and use it to understand what you can.

Peter Greenaway

#3. I used to think the 109th bead was an emergency spare. Like the extra button on a fancy sweater, or the youngest son in a royal family.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. My poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.

Tove Ditlevsen

#5. There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.

Paloma Faith

#6. Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot. The second thing is to write. And the third thing, which I think is absolutely vital, is to tell stories and listen closely to the stories you're being told.

John Green

#7. RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.

Ambrose Bierce

#8. Spring and fall in New York are the best seasons here to get out and about. I like the little park in Dumbo between the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridge. I like Prospect Park.

Paul Dano

#9. Every father and mother are the family's store keepers. They should store whatever their family would like to have in case of an emergency ... (and) God will sustain us through our trials.

James E. Faust

#10. I took my grandmother to the emergency room. The doctor said that she was on an artificial life support system, and that although her brain was dead her heart was still beating. I though, "we've never had a democrat in the family before".

Emo Philips

#11. Evil tongues never want a whet.

Alain-Rene Lesage

#12. That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.

Michael Shannon

#13. True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Leo Tolstoy