Pg 228 Quotes

#1. She set you down on the floor and you started ranging around, picking things up, pulling my cats tail- you screamed like a banshee when the cat scratched you, so I asked your mother if you were part banshee. She didn't laugh.
-Magnus to Clary, pg.228-

Cassandra Clare

#2. I began to murmur the Lord's Prayer in thanks.
"Shit," Mrs. Parsall said.

Laura Bickle

#3. There's never been a good government.

Emma Goldman

#4. Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences, is the necessity of labor for obtaining the means of subsistence, as well as the means of the greatest part of our pleasure.

James Mill

#5. The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

Aesop

#6. The human being needs a challenge, and my advice to every person in Singapore and elsewhere: Keep yourself interested, have a challenge.

Lee Kuan Yew

#7. I thought I was going to the NBA, but God knows, I'm not tall enough. I don't know what I was thinking.

Tequan Richmond

#8. The work of meaningful student involvement is not easy or instantly rewarding. It demands that the system of schooling change, and that the attitudes of students, educators, parents and community members change.

Adam Fletcher

#9. You are going to find that buying the car is much less satisfying than working for it.

Thomas M. Sterner

#10. The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.

Lucy Powell

#11. Wherever Jordan's going - and I do believe we all go somewhere - think of it as the light that will bring him home.

Cassandra Clare