Top 100 Lancaster Quotes
#1. His excitement was adorable. I couldn't resist. I leaned over and kissed him on the cheek. -Hazel Grace Lancaster, The Fault In Our Stars
John Green
#2. FALCKNER, DANIEL. Curieuse Nachricht from Pennsylvania. Translation by Julius F. Sachse. Lancaster, Pa.: 1905. Series of 103 questions and answers, on all aspects of Pennsylvania Conditions. Written at close of the seventeenth century. Several editions printed in Germany.
Anonymous
#3. There's a great quote in Gus's house, one that both he and I found very comforting: Without pain, we couldn't know joy. - Hazel Grace Lancaster
John Green
#4. He is a cat, Miss Lancaster. Asking him such questions is an exercise in futility.
Jim Butcher
#5. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. - Hazel Grace Lancaster
John Green
#6. The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass, Miss Lancaster." "Meaning what, precisely?" "That it reflects a great deal more of yourself to your senses than you probably know.
Jim Butcher
#7. I was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - in Amish Country!
Jonathan Groff
#8. I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.
Robert Mugabe
#9. There is more to the world than what a review board publishes about an officer or aeronaut, Miss Lancaster. Guard. Your. Tongue.
Jim Butcher
#10. May those who love us love us," Lancaster said suddenly as he held up his wine. "And those that don't love us, may God turn their hearts. And if He doesn't turn their hearts, may He turn their ankles, so we'll know them by their limping.
Madeleine Urban
#11. I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called Seesaw. I came offstage and heard the applause of the theater audience and felt a sense of accomplishment. Around that time my role model for success was Burt Lancaster. He was one of the first ac.
Giancarlo Esposito
#12. When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card.
(Sadie Lancaster - to Lara Lington)
Sophie Kinsella
#13. You're hard," she whispered, and I couldn't help my smirk.
"Yes. I'm very fucking hard."
"I want to see," she boldly stated.
No one could accuse Addison Lancaster of not going after what she wanted.
"Well, we don't always get what we want.
Ella Frank
#14. At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at Lancaster University, so he knows some of my subject.
David Crystal
#15. I should far rather be drunk than eaten, Miss Lancaster," Ferus said in a serious tone. "As should we all. Very well, that's settled.
Jim Butcher
#16. Funerals, I decided, are for the living. - Hazel Grace Lancaster
John Green
#17. That's why I ended up going to Lancaster University, because they had a visual arts course, and in the first year it was like a broad visual arts course in sculpture, painting, graphics - all of that.
Andy Serkis
#18. He loved me," Cameron insisted in a rough whisper. "He would have let me know he was alive."
"Oh, I don't know," Lancaster drawled with a slow, malicious smirk. "Love is just a word most of the time.
Abigail Roux
#19. I've been blessed to work with amazing designers who have generously given me beautiful bags. Lancaster was very sweet and let me pick out my favorite one when I shot the campaign.
Behati Prinsloo
#20. Life takes us on different paths ... It's not up to us to evaluate or judge them, merely respect and embrace them.
(Lara Lington - to Sadie Lancaster)
Sophie Kinsella
#21. Floral emblems have been often adopted. The houses of York and Lancaster had their roses, the Bourbons of France, the fleur-de-lis, Scotland her thistle, and Ireland her shamrock.
Dorothea Dix
#22. My mother's people are Old Order Mennonite - horse and buggy Mennonite, very close cousins to the Amish. I grew up in Lancaster County and lived near Amish farm land.
Beverly Lewis
#23. Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.
Manny Farber
#24. I am pretty unextraordinary, ~ Hazel Grace Lancaster.
John Green
#25. My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity, ~ Hazel Lancaster.
John Green
#26. I lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, until eighth grade, and then my high-school years were in Rochester, New York.
Kristen Wiig
#27. I had a feeling that Ben Lancaster had just tattooed himself onto my soul and the thing about tattoos? They were painful to remove.
Julie Bale
#28. The Union of the Two Noble and Illustrious Families of Lancaster and York,
Alison Weir
#29. But more often than not the missing face has been sucked into the engines of the Nazi death machine, like an unlucky lapwing hitting the propeller of a Lancaster bomber-nothing left but feathers blowing away in the aircraft's wake, as if those warm wings and beating heart had never existed.
Elizabeth Wein
#30. What's your name ?
Hazel .
No , your full name .
Um , Hazel Grace Lancaster .
John Green
#31. When you get old the worst thing is you lose so many friends. Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne. People who I loved to work with.
Kirk Douglas
#32. I don't really write with living actors in mind. I guess I write for dead actors. I'll think of like, you know, Burt Lancaster would be good in this part, and so on. With 'L.A. Confidential,' it was like, 'Wouldn't it be cool if Dean Martin played the Kevin Spacey part?'
Brian Helgeland
#33. You choose your behaviors based on their metaphorical resonances ... - Hazel Grace Lancaster
John Green
#34. Lancaster, California ... that promised land sometimes called 'the west coast of Iowa.
Joan Didion
#35. To recount these histories is like unravelling a thread: one means only to tell one little part, but then another comes in, and another, for they are all part of the same garment - Tudor, Lancaster, York, Plantagenet.
Margaret George
#36. I was not into sci-fi, science fiction, at all. I was into some of the old pirate films with Burt Lancaster and stuff. I liked them.
Mads Mikkelsen
#37. If America was a person, and it sat down, Lancaster town would be plunged into a Darkness unbreathable.
Thomas Pynchon
#38. Harland could see the dark yawn of eternity in the muzzle of Lancaster's .45.
H.A. DeRosso
#39. This is where the Continental Congress met over two hundred years ago during the American Revolution. So, Lancaster was actually the capital of our nation for one day in 1977.
Dan Quayle
#40. Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.
Sydney Pollack
#41. Funny how what's good for the gander is good for the goose...until it's your goose ~ The Duke of Lancaster
Catherine Hemmerling
#42. And suddenly the cockpit of the Lancaster breasts the cloud tops, and there is the sky, vast and clear and brilliantly blue. The wisps of cloud that rush past you are so white that you can't believe you've ever seen true whiteness before.
Jack Currie
#43. I'm so lucky to have worked with Burt Lancaster, who I remember was one of the first people I'd heard swearing in a really interesting way.
Peter Capaldi
#44. I went to a local high school in Lancaster. Not much I can say about it; it was pretty much your typical public high school back in Pennsylvania.
Jonathan Groff
#45. I like to preserve simplicity rahter than over-polishing. Fashions are changeable. Taste is in realizing the essence of a place.
Nancy Lancaster
#46. In real life, I tend to yell at people a lot. Not because I'm bossy or mean, but because I'm frustrated.
Jen Lancaster
#47. This is terrific! What fun! Maybe tomorrow I can go to the prom with my brother. The day after, perhaps I can wear white pants and unexpectedly get my period.
Jen Lancaster
#48. If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?
John Lancaster Spalding
#49. I really do believe that being naturally beautiful is what is inside and what shines through.
Penny Lancaster
#51. There's a saying about ranch women. When they're 30, they look 50. When they're 80, they look 50.
Craig Lancaster
#52. Except for thinking up reasons I'm allowed to skip the gym, my schedule is almost totally empty. (Today's reason is because I have a cold. Yesterday's was the dogs seemed sad.
Jen Lancaster
#53. Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
John Lancaster Spalding
#54. Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.
John Lancaster Spalding
#55. I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.
Burt Lancaster
#56. In restoring a house one must first realize its period, feel its personality and try to bring out its good points.
Nancy Lancaster
#57. For the record? I have never been her baby. In fact, I reject the notion of coming out of her body. I prefer to believe I was hatched, or perhaps purchased.
Jen Lancaster
#59. We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for,
Burt Lancaster
#60. I like Oprah. I could sit around and make vision boards all day, but I wouldn't actually get anything done if I were to concentrate on my feelings rather than doing.
Jen Lancaster
#61. The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.
John Lancaster Spalding
#62. I'm not thin, but I'm strong - plus my balance is such that I can navigate a flight of stairs with a basket of laundry and a stack of Pottery Barn catalogs, vaulting over cat-and-dog hurdles, never once spilling my coffee.
Jen Lancaster
#63. I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.
Jen Lancaster
#64. The first 'Wii Fit' games I tried were the slalom and ski jumping. I believe my spectacular failures here had more to do with the board resting on thick carpet than my shoddy balance.
Jen Lancaster
#66. I would rather receive a Pap smear from Captain Hook than venture out in New Year's Eve.
Jen Lancaster
#67. We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.
John Lancaster Spalding
#68. Our prejudices are like physical infirmities - we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
John Lancaster Spalding
#69. Superstition requires no tests, no measurements, no proof: just faith.
Mike A. Lancaster
#70. I think people tend to be very myopic and they don't understand how their actions impact others.
Jen Lancaster
#71. Life is unfair and there are winners and losers, regardless of how much overprotective parents attempt to shield their offspring from reality.
Jen Lancaster
#72. You know what it was like? It was like thinking I was heading to a surprise party and instead it was a surprise pap smear.
Jen Lancaster
#73. What is greatly desired, but long deferred, gives little pleasure, when at length it is ours, for we have lived with it in imagination until we have grown weary of it, having ourselves, in the meanwhile, become other.
John Lancaster Spalding
#74. I think that people who stand up for what they believe in, no matter how unpopular, should be celebrated, not cast aside.
Craig Lancaster
#75. Hell hath no fury like a middle-aged woman in a fuzzy pink robe, hopped up on a winning combination of allergy medicine, Alias reruns, and anger.
Jen Lancaster
#76. How was it even possible to know if your brain was malfunctioning, because the very thing you need to think it all through is the very thing that might be playing up in the first place
Mike A. Lancaster
#77. Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
John Lancaster Spalding
#78. I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.
Burt Lancaster
#79. Seduction is the art of saying what you don't do in order to do what you don't say
Lois Lancaster
#80. Fletch then kisses me on the forehead before opening the cabinet under the coffeemaker to grab placemats and napkins. Retrieving these items is his job because I kind of don't like to bend. I also refuse to carry anything heavier than my purse.
Jen Lancaster
#81. Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.
John Lancaster Spalding
#82. There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.
John Lancaster Spalding
#83. Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact.
Osbert Lancaster
#84. I hope you do exist. Even though hope is as intangible as belief, I am not hostile to it.
Craig Lancaster
#86. -so if the inevitability of oblivion worries you, than I suggest you ignore it. God knows that's what the rest of the world does.
John Green
#87. It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them.
John Lancaster Spalding
#88. To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of many.
John Lancaster Spalding
#89. I'm not lazy. I'm simply judicious about excess movement.
Jen Lancaster
#90. A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.
John Lancaster Spalding
#91. Back in early 1983, my dad was tasked with keeping unions from organizing in his company's distribution centers. His work pulled him away from home for months on end.
Jen Lancaster
#93. May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.
Joseph Lancaster
#94. Now with social media, people essentially come into my living room, my virtual living room, and tell me everything that is wrong with me.
Jen Lancaster
#95. I yearn to be a woman of more depth, but I'm not so fond of the path I'd need to follow to get there.
Jen Lancaster
#96. Scale is of prime importance and I think that oversized scale is better than undersized scale.
Nancy Lancaster
#97. You know how it's almost impossible for kids to not say what they think? That's me. I have to make the conscious effort to be situationally appropriate.
Jen Lancaster
#98. A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.
Joseph Lancaster
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