Moddie Breland Quotes

#1. Anyone who has an egg to watch over has a stake in the future, and the future
they were sure of it
was going to be good.

Eva Ibbotson

#2. Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.

Joanna Baillie

#3. The business of judging a headline AFTER you read the copy is wrong. It takes for granted that everybody reads the copy.

John Caples

#4. To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly narrow and cracked determinism.

Joan Didion

#5. Babbit was an average father. He was affectionate, bullying, opinionated, ignorant, and rather wistful. Like most parents he enjoyed the game of waiting till the victim was clearly wrong, then virtuously pouncing.

Sinclair Lewis

#6. Sibling relationships figure in a lot of my books. You don't often see relationships between adult siblings explored in fiction.

Dara Horn

#7. What about this overcrowded land/How much more abuse from man can she stand?

Marvin Gaye

#8. Though you wear your fingers to the bone with service, weep your eyes out with repentance, make your knees hard with kneeling, and dry your throat with shouting, if your heart does not beat with love, your religion falls to the ground like a withered leaf in autumn.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#9. The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.

Miguel De Cervantes