Leaving Atlanta Quotes

#1. My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.

Tayari Jones

#2. In order to detain the fleeting apparition, he must enchain it in the fetters of rule, dissect its fair proportions into abstract notions, and preserve its living spirit in a fleshless skeleton of words.

Friedrich Schiller

#3. That's like piss icing on the shit cake.

R.S. Grey

#4. He pressed his fist to where his heart had once beaten, and I did the same. I'm sure I looked like a total idiot, but I think we all do when we're really happy. Except for Longspee. He just looked fabulous being happy.

Cornelia Funke

#5. I never trust anything that can be captured in 2 takes.

Eleanor Tomlinson

#6. To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.

Maria Montessori

#7. I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.

Dave Grohl

#8. A sure cure for seasickness is to stand underneath a tree.

Spike Milligan

#9. When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.

Myrtle Reed

#10. I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. Good infantry is without doubt the sinews of an army; but if it has to fight a long time against very superior artillery, it will become demoralized and will be destroyed.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#12. What you wear in your heart you wear in your face.

Hazel Felleman

#13. Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Walt Disney