Mrs Turpin Quotes

#1. Sometimes Mrs. Turpin occupied herself at night naming the classes of people.

Flannery O'Connor

#2. Mrs. Turpin felt entirely hollow except for her heart which swung from side to side as if it were agitated in a great empty drum of flesh

Flannery O'Connor

#3. Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

Edmund Burke

#4. I learned that adults were not soaring gods, but rather back-yard birds with broken wingtips.
When you are thirteen, about to free-fall into the real world, discovering the broken wingtips is terrifying.

Janet Turpin Myers

#5. When you seek to dominate another you dominate no one but disempower yourself.

Gary Zukav

#6. At that moment when John Lennon settled his voice on the back of a dove and released it to the world, could he have possibly imagined that all these years later, I would be here in my office imagining us imagining him?

Janet Turpin Myers

#7. Marriage is like a fingerprint. Everyone's is different.

Angela Lam Turpin

#8. Everybody knows, a humungous thing happened on Sunday, July 20th, 1969 at exactly 4:17E.D.T. The 'Eagle' has landed. Bingo. Just like that. Man became an alien.

Janet Turpin Myers

#9. China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.

Iqbal Quadir

#10. Life will succeed life, as we know it.

R.W. Erskine

#11. Curse thee, Life, I will live with thee no more! Thou hast mocked me, starved me, beat my body sore! And all for a pledge that was not pledged by me, I have kissed thy crust and eaten sparingly That I might eat again, and met thy sneers With deprecations, and thy blows with tears, ...

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#12. Thank you for annoying neighbours, for they allow us to practise our ability to love.

Janet Turpin Myers

#13. If I had a wish it would be this: that Google maps could take me, not to just anywhere on the planet, but to anywhere in time.

Janet Turpin Myers

#14. I've always felt sorry for Mike Collins, driving all the way to the moon but not allowed out of the car to look around.

Janet Turpin Myers

#15. I doubt I would use the word 'casualty'. There is nothing casual about killing.

Janet Turpin Myers

#16. Blessing Number One. Thank you for getting old because it means you are getting to live.

Janet Turpin Myers

#17. Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment ...

Pliny The Younger

#18. Why doesn't anyone go to the moon anymore? What happened to our optimism?

Janet Turpin Myers

#19. Such is the dilemma of the atheist. Who to thank? It's a terrible condition, to feel one's heart swelling with the wonders of our world and yet have nobody to thank for it. It makes a man feel thwarted.

Janet Turpin Myers

#20. She wondered which was worse - living your whole life staring at yourself or waiting your whole life for someone to stare back at you.

Angela Lam Turpin

#21. Air ye deaf, lass?
I think. He might have called me a hairy jackass

Karen Marie Moning

#22. The universe is a gathering of nows that I spread before my feet like a landscape.

Janet Turpin Myers

#23. How can growing up really be about falling down?

Janet Turpin Myers

#24. I would spend my nights at home but if it means contention. I'd rather be alone tell the service man cut the phones.

Buju Banton

#25. Was the dementia of old age a blessing in disguise? No more thoughts. No more damage inflicted. No more memories of damage survived.

Janet Turpin Myers

#26. One person's greatest regret is another person's greatest memory.

Angela Lam Turpin

#27. The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you.

Robert Breault