Maydon Restaurant Quotes

#1. How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!

Joseph Hall

#2. When my father was vigorous and lucid, (my mother) regarded medicine as her wily ally in a lifelong campaign to keep old age, sickness, and death at bay. Now ally and foe exchanged masks. Medicine looked more like the enemy, and death the friend. (p. 184)

Katy Butler

#3. Judas put his arm around me. I smiled and thought of the words unreality and despair.

Catherine Lacey

#4. And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing.

Emily Watson

#5. Forming culture is not a one-time event.

Matt Chandler

#6. She drew herself up to her full height - it was a little difficult on a donkey - and said primly, I have always found that in painful situations it is a sensible idea to take each hour as it comes and not to anticipate beyond. But oh how I wish I could have a bath!

Dorothy Gilman

#7. First things were good, last things not so much so.

Kate Atkinson

#8. As players and coaches, we all want to reach our goal. It's up to us to go out there and perform.

Hines Ward

#9. My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible exception of ice cream and pie.

Angelo Pellegrini

#10. We Americans are not about to stop borrowing as long as they give us money for nothing.

Kenneth Rogoff

#11. The quality of your life is the outcome of your own thoughts

Laureli Blyth

#12. Religion is to be used as a stepping stone to God but it must never be used as a tower to hold one aloft from others. We are all cells in the body of humanity. When anyone attempts to isolate another, they only isolate themselves more.

Peace Pilgrim