Nelle Fortenberry Quotes

#1. She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.

L.M. Montgomery

#2. They need you until they don't need you.

Michael Connelly

#3. Jerkiness isn't as respectable as it used to be, not even in L.A. Which is why they had to build Vegas.

Ross Macdonald

#4. We were all wondering - could you stop the maracas

Caitlin Moran

#5. I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin to wonder whether decent liberal instincts, decent humanitarian instincts, can actually penetrate the right-wing voice, get through the steering of American opinion by the mass media.

John Le Carre

#6. If I had received good instruction as a child I would be with my family today and at peace with my neighbors. I hope and pray that all you parents in the sound of my voice will train up your children in the way they should go.

Charles Portis

#7. A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not on the branch but on its own wings.

Anonymous

#8. We accumulate pain, collect it ... We display it, stack it up into a pile, then we stack it up into a mountain, so we can climb up onto it, waiting for or demanding sympathy: "Hey, do you see how big my pain is?"

Marlena De Blasi

#9. All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work.

Hiroyuki Nishimura

#10. The message of reconciliation, of nation-building, of granting amnesty, indemnity, has struck a powerful, favorable chord. And people can understand that we're here not for purposes of retribution but to forget the past and to build our country.

Nelson Mandela

#11. Ever since I served as an infantryman in the First World War I had a great dislike of people who themselves in ease and safety, issue exhortations to men in the front line.

C.S. Lewis