Hector Brocklebank Quotes

#1. Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an adult and you realize that's not true, it's too late.

Muriel Barbery

#2. Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.

Eric Hoffer

#3. If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

Alma Guillermoprieto

#4. We are all better than we know. If only we can be brought to realise this, we may never be prepared to settle for anything less

Kurt Hahn

#5. I think my mother was very spiritual.

John McGahern

#6. Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.

Mary Hunter Austin

#7. Turn off the radio, TV, DVD, iPod, computer and cell phone. Then, listen.

Gina Greenlee

#8. Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#9. There come nought out of the sacke but what was there.

George Herbert

#10. Mrs. Deane was a thin-lipped woman, who made small well-considered speeches on peculiar occasions, repeating them afterwards to her husband, and asking him if she had not spoken very properly.

George Eliot