Jam Tarts Quotes

#1. Me?" said Johnny. "I don't know anything about science!"
"Marvellous! Ideal qualification!" said Einstein.
"What?"
"Ignorance is very important! It is an absolutely essential step in the learning process!

Terry Pratchett

#2. I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.

George Washington

#3. I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.

Sarah Fielding

#4. The American people want jobs and economic growth. Congress is doing nothing to provide that. The American people want their constitutional liberties protected. Congress is doing nothing to provide that.

Ted Cruz

#5. I figured I'd duck out ... before Goody Osbourne took the stand.

Megan Abbott

#6. We walked back the way we came, and even though it was dark there were no lights burning inside the houses. They were like people without hearts; raspberry tarts without the jam.

Glenda Millard

#7. We are surrounded on all sides by God but often we are no more conscious of him than we are of air pressing against us. We don't turn our attention to Him. (Evelyn Underhill)

Sue Monk Kidd

#8. It remains to be seen, for example whether China can continue to develop as a market economy while still retaining an authoritarian communist political system.

Peter Dicken

#9. When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.

Rita Mae Brown

#10. Earth and water, soil and stone, oaks and elms and willows, they were here before us all and will still remain when we are gone.

George R R Martin