Peggotty Quotes

#1. "Peggotty!" repeated Miss Betsey, with some indignation. "Do you mean to say, child, that any human being has gone into a Christian church, and got herself named Peggotty?"

Charles Dickens

#2. I don't know how it is,' said Peggotty, 'unless it's on account of being stupid, but my head never can pick and choose its people. They come and they go, and they don't come and they don't go, just as they like. I wonder what's become of her?

Charles Dickens

#3. Peggotty always went to sleep with her chin upon the handle of the basket, her hold of which never relaxed; and I could not have believed unless I had heard her do it, that one defenceless woman could have snored so much.

Charles Dickens

#4. Every night,' said Mr. Peggotty, 'as reg'lar as the night comes, the candle must be stood in its old pane of glass, that if ever she should see it, it may seem to say, Come back, my child, come back!

Charles Dickens

#5. Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more competitive.

Kent Conrad

#6. I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis of knowledge and conviction, is for me
and I think for all of us
not only our own hope, but America's everlasting, living dream.

Thomas Wolfe

#7. Best line in the book:

"I played the part well, but I was as fake as a California tan on an Alaskan cheerleader.

Ali Parker

#8. Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Albert Einstein

#9. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. That's the reality. He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so he's not captured by us. We know that.

Eric Holder