Monte Melkonian Quotes

#1. I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - and not just towards cats and dogs.

Vasily Grossman

#2. Putting even one thing in your shopping basket that's locally produced or organic makes all the difference. It's a vote for the future, for animal welfare, for the environment, for your children's children.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#3. He's got places to go, people to see . . . ,

Julie Garwood

#4. It sucked balls.Dirty balls. Like I-ran-a-mile-in-July-while-wearing-leather-pants balls.

Stephanie Perkins

#5. There's no going back. So we might as well get on with things.

Suzanne Collins

#6. It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.

Erin Morgenstern

#7. Her taste for symmetry and structure, it helped her thoughts drift. Symmetry did not chain her, it set her free. (p. 85)

Deborah Levy

#8. I object to conscription the way a lobster objects to boiling water: it may be his finest hour but it's not his choice.

Robert A. Heinlein

#9. The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts, to explain the origin of life, is thus far merely conjectural. I believe he has not even made the best conjecture possible in the present state of our knowledge.

Louis Agassiz

#10. Two of the tiny shepherds were using their shepherds' staffs for swords, nearly hitting Mary and Joseph.
"I remember you doing that."
"You hand a boy a stick, he will use it as a sword. I remember you being upset about that."
"Because I was Mary and you ruined the whole scene.

Sarah Holman

#11. The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her.

Paul Bowles