Froissart Chronicles Quotes

#1. How much the fiction of Sir Walter Scott owes to Froissart, and to Philip de Comines after Froissart, those only can understand who have read both the old chronicles and the modern romances. It was one of the congenial labors of

William Cleaver Wilkinson

#2. He died in the middle of our conversation. How rude ...

Hiromu Arakawa

#3. He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.

Alice Walker

#4. I glance over at Raffe for the hundredth time as I huddle with Pooky Bear beneath a coat that someone gave me. I'm shivering as if it's zero degrees, and no matter how much I hug myself, I can't get warm. I

Susan Ee

#5. We often grow up being told that we can do this or that, but if you don't see anybody that looks like you doing it, you don't believe you can do it. But I had great teachers, and I wanted to be a great teacher.

Jesse Williams

#6. Winter had receded in recent days, as though resting

Ian Tregillis

#7. The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.

Ferdinand Marcos

#8. A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

Arnold Bennett

#9. My Macbook is my new boyfriend, except that he's dependable and meets all my demands.

Jessica Zafra

#10. Day-old bread? Sadly, in America a lot of day-old bread just becomes nasty. Italian day-old bread, not having any preservatives in it, just becomes harder and it doesn't taste old. What I would warn people about is getting bread that's loaded with other things in it, because it starts to taste old.

Mario Batali

#11. Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.

Frank Moore Colby