Italian Father And Daughter Quotes

#1. How tall are you, Constantine?" I asked, unable to hide my tears.
Constantine narrowed her eyes at me.
"How tall is you?"
"Five-eleven," I cried. "I'm already taller than the boys' basketball coach."
"Well, I'm five-thirteen, so quit feeling sorry for yourself.

Kathryn Stockett

#2. Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.

George Herbert

#3. My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.

Camille Paglia

#4. ...how gracious seem the small gifts that may come - a patch of sunlight on a cold floor, an unexpected gesture of friendship, the fragrant steam of hot tea.

Martha Whitmore Hickman

#5. A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

Honore De Balzac

#6. Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

Sophocles

#7. There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

Josh Billings

#8. Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

Doris Lessing

#9. When it's me in my living room, it's pretty pure, and then what gets recorded involves more people, and it keeps escalating from there.

Liz Phair

#10. Pettiness separates; breadth unites. Let us be broad and big.

Emma Goldman

#11. Dude, I don't want to talk about Lacey's prom shoes. And I'll tell you why: I have this thing that makes me really uninterested in prom shoes. It's called a penis.

John Green