Hereabouts Quotes

#1. You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

Moliere

#2. Since you are so kind as to think of me, be so kind as to bring me a rose, for as none grow hereabouts, they are a kind of rarity.

Jeanne-Marie Leprince De Beaumont

#3. Many, many people hereabouts are not becoming Christians for one reason only: there is nobody to make them Christians.

Francis Xavier

#4. We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place, about a mile from where we lodged.

John Woolman

#5. He said, "You misunderstand. We did not kill the nuggies and the other folk hereabouts. They see us, and then they commonly die."
"Of what?" I asked.
"Of embarrassment.

Harry Turtledove

#6. You know what I mean. Is it true the folk hereabouts" - he pointed to the land ahead - "are cripples? Missing half their hindquarters?"
"The fauns? Cripples?" I laughed. "By the gods who made them, no!

Harry Turtledove

#7. They say that there are a prodigious number of birds hereabouts this year, so that perhaps I may kill a few.

Jane Austen

#8. Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.

Jim Crace

#9. (I'm a child of the wired generation, unlike some of the suits hereabouts who have their secretaries print everything out and dictate their replies for an audio-typist to send.)

Charles Stross

#10. All right,' said Pooley, 'as panic is clearly ill-received hereabouts, what do we do?

Robert Rankin

#11. Charlie Sheen called his boss on 'Two and a Half Men' a 'Jew ki**' and expected to go back to work. That's crazy. If you could do that and keep your job, then everybody would do it.

Anthony Jeselnik

#12. I believe that the decisions which govern all our lives, the laws we must all obey, and the taxes we must all pay should be decided by people we choose and who we can throw out if we want change.

Michael Gove

#13. You can make an idea spread for good but you can also make an idea spread for bad and the power to make an idea spread, memetics, you know which now people talk about memes.

Jay Roach

#14. My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

Bill Wyman

#15. Don't sit around depressed and discouraged. Get a new vision for your life.

Joel Osteen