Lemon Orchard Quotes

#1. My father gave me an old Olympia portable when I was in fourth grade. Our ancestors came from Ireland. Our family stories of immigration helped me understand more about my characters in 'The Lemon Orchard.'

Luanne Rice

#2. INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. Much to his annoyance, a thought popped into his mind. It was very clear and very distinct, and he had now come to recognize these thoughts for what they were. His instinct was to resist them.

Douglas Adams

#4. I don't just want to do something that is purely stuck in a genre box. I would like to have the kind of autonomy.

George Nolfi

#5. We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our children and our families so as not to give up Iraq. We say this so no one will think that America is capable of breaking the will of the Iraqis with its weapons.

Saddam Hussein

#6. I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

Charles Lamb

#7. We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change.

Jim Yong Kim

#8. Let the two cross-tops and junk gin and four no-filter Camels make your heart pound.

Amanda Boyden

#9. I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

Jerzy Kosinski

#10. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

T. S. Eliot

#11. But don't you also find it hard to accept that your [mankind's] attempts to solve your problems fail with predictable regularity? It seems to us [Luxenbenites] you would welcome an overall solution.

Dan Hurwitz

#12. beware love, especially the wrong man

N.K. Jemisin

#13. I've killed lots of Arabs in my life - and there's no problem with that.

Naftali Bennett

#14. The day is declining through the white afternoon to the long blue spring evening. He drives past a corner where someone is practicing on a trumpet

John Updike