Mary Agnes Quotes

#1. My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her mother and he in his father's market garden in Marton Moss, a village on the south side of Blackpool, just north of Saint Anne's-on-Sea.

Michael Smith

#2. What has been done is little - scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge will, we are easily persuaded, appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us.

Agnes Mary Clerke

#3. I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.

Lisa St. Aubin De Teran

#4. Seriously, Jude," I say without moving my head, I'm too relaxed. "How about this, if you hurt me, I'll give you a code word. It'll be 'ouch'.

Brynne Asher

#5. [...] there was only the sound of the sea.

Virginia Woolf

#6. I'm a deeply spiritual person, and I strongly believe that God is watching over me!

Mahesh Bhupathi

#7. Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.

Samuel Beckett

#8. Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie.

Shane Black

#9. The saying "He who teaches others, teaches himself" is very true, not only because constant repetition impresses a fact indelibly on the mind, but because the process of teaching itself gives deeper insight into the subject taught.

John Amos Comenius

#10. I will never, ever do a film as successful as the Harry Potter series. But neither will anyone else.

Daniel Radcliffe

#11. They are anxious to have everything the white man has even if it is harmful.

Carter G. Woodson

#12. Your father is your f-father regardless, Agnes. Birth and b-breeding do not always depend upon small matters like who provided the seed.

Mary Balogh

#13. The only people who fear death are the ones who haven't lived.

Gemma Malley

#14. the big problem with motherhood of girls, it seems to me, is that we're both women.

Elizabeth Noble

#15. I discovered when I went all out, when I put 100 percent of my energy into some intense, impossible task - when my heart was jack-hammering, when lactic acid was sizzling through my muscles - that's when I felt good, normal, balanced.

Daniel Coyle