Patriae Quotes

#1. Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black.
[Lat., Furtum ingeniosus ad omne,
Qui facere assueret, patriae non degener artis,
Candida de nigris, et de candentibus atra.]

Ovid

#2. He could tell Big Tag was going to be a helicopter parent. An Apache attack helicopter parent.

Lexi Blake

#3. I eat like a horse - my mother still brings me Cadbury's chocolate from Britain; I do have a very healthy appetite - but I work out.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#4. If women have an income, they will invest a higher proportion of that income in their children than men do. So you do get those societal returns very quickly.

Ann Cotton

#5. As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.

Manfred Von Richthofen

#6. Because seas are like cats, he said, they always come home.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#7. The constancy of the laws of nature, or the certainty with which we may expect the same effects from the same causes, is the foundation of the faculty of reason.

Thomas Robert Malthus

#8. If you want to drive ahead, look through the windscreen and drive, not through the rear-view mirror!

Rajuda

#9. Crossfire's done very well. I knew it was a great song, but I didn't know it would be so big.

Brandon Flowers

#10. A child can always teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires. It was because of that boy that I returned to Akbar.

Paulo Coelho

#11. We SPEND TIME, we PRIORITIZE TASKS, and we MANAGE LIFE.
The first person to lead is YOURSELF.
The first thing to manage is YOUR LIFE.
The first area to focus on is YOUR PURPOSE.

Farshad Asl

#12. If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.

Sargent Shriver

#13. I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

Dane Cook