Petrin Quotes

#1. They were kids. Kids don't care about totalitarianism. For my parents, Prague is picnics on Petrin Hill and homemade knedliky. It's home. They didn't notice the tanks in the backyard, the blood in the streets.

Robin Wasserman

#2. If I've got the powers of a god, then why am I so ... "
"Lame?" Sadie suggested.
"Shut up," I said.

Rick Riordan

#3. What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves
our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.

Margaret Atwood

#4. Like all that pertains to crime, it seemed never to have known a youthful era.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#5. If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.

Bobby Bowden

#6. I love to sleep. I'd sleep all day if I could.

Miley Cyrus

#7. To gain the acceptance of your peers is an admirable task, but to truly accept yourself requires a much higher standard.

Wes Fesler

#8. The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.

Walter Lippmann