Parentis Quotes

#1. Figuratively, they escaped from Cout Olaf and their miserable existence. They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house and vulnerable to Olaf's evil in loco parentis ways.

Lemony Snicket

#2. Colleges [have] forfeited the responsibilities of in loco parentis and have gone into the pimping and brothel business.

Vigen Guroian

#3. On August 26 the Assembly responded by conferring French citizenship upon Joseph Priestley, Jeremy Bentham, William Wilberforce, Anacharsis Cloots, Johann Pestalozzi, Thaddeus Kosciusko, Friedrich Schiller, George Washington, Thomas Paine, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton.

Will Durant

#4. My assistant says I'm an eBay auction waiting to happen. I have a very large collection of T-shirts ... about 4,000 now. Maybe I'll pillage it someday. I have resisted the offers to do a line of T-shirts.

Bruce Vilanch

#5. To be a mother is the greatest vocation in the world. No being has a position of such great power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations, for to her is necessarily committed the making of the nation's citizens.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#6. images can bring hopefulness.

Mark Lau Branson

#7. Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?

Ramana Maharshi

#8. I'm too much of a 'do it my own way and fuck the rest of the world' kind of guy.

Maya Banks

#9. You can only do so much theatre.

Victor Garber

#10. The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.

Alexander McCall Smith

#11. Just once I'd like to meet a fella who isn't a phony. Somebody who doesn't wanna buy me a fur so he can show me off to his boys.

Libba Bray