Pargiter Quotes

#1. Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.

Mark Kurlansky

#2. The future is simple. The future is simple, I can hold it i the palm of my hand; and the present is just a matter of endurance, detachment, and a sense of humor.

Vikram Chandra

#3. He was taking control, rather than simply letting things happen to him. Then

Spencer Johnson

#4. Be a person who sees endless beauty in nature and in humanity.

Debasish Mridha

#5. You left them alone and they grew too strong for thee. Hadst fought them as a man, thou couldst have conquered them and been one, honored among thy townspeople. But thou had not the soul to fight them and behold thou hast gone down until thou art a slave in Syria.

George S. Clason

#6. Wisdom is the essential basis of greatness.

Wallace D. Wattles

#7. You know, Sanger, Barnum may have said that it matters not what is said about you so long as it is said, but I am eloquent enough to knock that theory into a cocked hat should I be required to do so.

Val Andrews

#8. I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

Amy Tan

#9. She learned her hands in a fairy-tale,
And her mouth on a valentine.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#10. They say cats have nine lives. I've had 12 already and I don't know how many more I'll have.

Gordon Ramsay

#11. It's difficult to fight when you have no idea who your enemy is.

Sudha Kuruganti

#12. She sees tall, sensible Eleanor sitting out on a terrace at twilight, with bats circling above her head. She sees the Pargiter family rising and falling through the decades like swimmers battling the waves.'
Summer Lies Bleeding

Nuala Casey