Platinum Jubilee Quotes

#1. He lifted his hand to knock, but then he stopped. He could go neither forward nor back, so he simply stayed that way - hand frozen in the air.

Anne Ursu

#2. Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of tillage in the hands or prehistoric man. It has been going on ever since, wherever man's culture of the earth has bared the soil to rain and wind.

Hugh Hammond Bennett

#3. I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos ... I've had nine husbands ... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.

Jacki Weaver

#4. Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

Rickie Lee Jones

#5. People always want to know things . . . until they hear them, and then it's too late. Knowledge is a rug of a certain size, and the world is larger. It's not what remains uncovered at the edges that should worry you, rather what is swept beneath.

Mark Lawrence

#6. To realize that we are just a breath away from eternity takes a lot of guts and brain power. So, spend your breath wisely.

Jestoni Revealed

#7. Rise up from the dead, and Christ will give you light.

Anonymous

#8. Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.

Tavi Gevinson

#9. Do not confront me with my failures, I have not forgotten them. - Nico (Royal Tenenbaums)

Remy Charlip

#10. You would be amazed at the pompadour that I was rocking in the first job I had on the soap opera called 'Loving,' my first contract job.

Michael Weatherly

#11. Facebook is about seeing what your friend is doing. Twitter, you follow different people. Flipboard is about passions and interests and topics, and so it's the same social web that all of these products are letting you look at, but Flipboard is coming at it from a more topical point of view.

Mike McCue

#12. Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Honore De Balzac

#13. Writers are like gardeners - they have to prune to get to the beauty of their creation.

Lee Rene

#14. Dominic took the bait: If the President breaks the law, then the House of Representatives impeaches him and the Senate convicts him, and he's out on the street,

Tom Clancy