Hetty Quotes

#1. Will you stop trying to be brave! It's me, Mama! You can be honest with me. -Hetty

Jacqueline Wilson

#2. Hetty was eating, rather than reading, large slabs of a very thin book of contemporary verse each page having a thick wodge of print, without capital letters, starting at the top and running nearly to the bottom. Her eyes were very close to the book and she frowned with concentration.

Stella Gibbons

#3. Hetty shivered. Goodness, he had no business looking at her like that. Physician my eye! Physicians definitely didn't look like him; they were short, round and adorned with wigs and spectacles.

Susan Lodge

#4. I WOKE WITH a start, my head hurting, aching all over. For a moment I didn't know where I was. Indeed, I felt so fuddled I didn't even know who I was. Hetty Feather, Sapphire Battersea, Emerald Star? I had three names now.

Jacqueline Wilson

#5. God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it.

James Fenimore Cooper

#6. Hetty did not understand how anybody could be very fond of middle-aged people. And

George Eliot

#7. Since Hetty wasn't even here yet, I excused myself to go to the bathroom where I promptly picked my kindle up again. Don't judge.

Penelope Ward

#8. I knew from reading about Sarah Grimke that she'd been given a handmaid to be her personal slave and that her name was Hetty. The only other fact I knew about her was that Sarah taught her to read: They conspired in a very subversive way, by locking the door and screening the keyhole.

Sue Monk Kidd

#9. Missus said I was the worst waiting maid in Charleston. She said, "You are abysmal, Hetty, abysmal." I asked Miss Sarah what abysmal means and she said, "Not quite up to standard." Uh huh. I could tell from missus' face, there's bad, there's worse, and after that comes abysmal.

Sue Monk Kidd

#10. In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven!

James Joyce

#11. My counsel to entrepreneurs is to 'own' a region, 'own' a market, 'own' a segment. Create something you can defend. Don't get hung up on the idea that you have to go national.

Gary Hirshberg

#12. Let him cry, it's good for his lungs" is not the solution mothers wish to hear. Disregarding the problem does not make it go away.

Hetty Van De Rijt

#13. Thething I am proudest of in my whole business life is that I do not take, that I never took in all my life, and never, never! will take, one single penny more than 6% on any loan or any contract.

Hetty Green

#14. Some people think they are too good to walk the same earth as the rest of us, let alone attend the same church.

Hetty King

#15. I am tired and drunk and still hungry. He is full of steak and Coca-Cola and, presumably, energy: enough energy to cross the road and walk up the steps inside the tower of the cathedral, which I have never entered.

Joanna Walsh

#16. When hard times come, people should lose their faith in false doctrine, not in God.

Randy Alcorn

#17. I always saw two sides of life. I saw the dudes who would be the gangsta, big-time guys on the block, but would also be dedicated fathers. It was kind of weird to see that dual story that everybody has.

Lupe Fiasco

#18. We don't have to fight all the time. It can be done, and we will be great when we join together.

John Kasich

#19. The Midnight Gang

David Walliams

#20. Reciting poetry isn't acting, it's memory work. Actor's are deceivers. People who pretend to be something else for a living aren't right in the head.

Hetty King

#21. In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.

Terry Eagleton

#22. The devil's in most people. Not me, mind you, but most.

Hetty King

#23. The only thing I can see in Jasper Dale's face is helpless and utter confusion.

Hetty King

#24. She still has that freshman-year reputation though. She acts like she doesn't care, but I know she does, at least a little.

Jenny Han

#25. Evading responsibility can lead to a life long pattern of criminal behavior.

Hetty King

#26. We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

Stephen Hawking

#27. As the eldest in the family, I'm used to making unpopular decisions.

Hetty King

#28. I wish one half the world were not fools, and the other half idiots.

Fanny Fern

#29. Love at first sight. I don't believe in that shit. Weird, huh? Yeah, but the Little Drummer Boy has been fucked over too many times before. The fairytale only lasts so long as reality doesn't come stomping through to smash it.

C.M. Stunich

#30. All you have to do is buy cheap and sell dear, act with thrift and shrewdness, and be persistent.

Hetty Green

#31. I advise women to invest in real estate. It is the collateral to be preferred above all others, and the safest means of investing money.

Hetty Green

#32. My class is not a three ring circus.

Hetty King

#33. It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work a full eight and more. Scribbled at the dinner table, in bed, on the toilet, on the No. 6 train, at Shea Stadium. I did everything I could. But none of it worked.

Junot Diaz

#34. Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.

Jeffrey Kluger

#35. Bad things sometimes happen to good people; the key to happiness is try to make the best of, and be thankful for the hand we're dealt

Colleen Houck