Poinsettia Plant Quotes

#1. A clergyman generally dislikes to be met in argument by any scriptural quotation; he feels as affronted as a doctor does, when recommended by an old woman to take some favourite dose,

Anthony Trollope

#2. The working-class black Southern Christian culture I come from still nurtures me, and I mean directly, daily.

Bell Hooks

#3. A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are meaningless. What you call individual rights are merely the cultural fantasy of a failed civilization.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#4. To give, and not demand that others receive ... that is the crossover point to maturity ...

Richard Rohr

#5. America still is the center of the world, and what happens in the American economy matters everywhere.

Martin Amis

#6. This was because she knew few words and believed in none, and in the world she was rather silent, contributing just her share of urbane humor with a precision that approached meagreness.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

Ryan White

#8. General Polk, who was dignified and corpulent, walked back slowly, not wishing to appear too hurried or cautious in the presence of the men, and was struck across the breast by an unexploded shell, which killed him instantly.

William T. Sherman

#9. Leo had a weird memory of a missile hurtling towards him and screaming like a little girl ... what the heck had that been about?

Rick Riordan

#10. I am afraid of Mr. Powell. I am more afraid of him than I have ever been of shadows or the thunder or when you look through the little bubble in the glass of the window in the upstairs hall and all of the out-of-doors stretches and twists its neck.

Davis Grubb

#11. I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

Vivienne Westwood

#12. Of course they didn't give us this much, Sage. But I had to make sure I nailed my first assignment. Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try.

Richelle Mead

#13. From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.

Tyra Banks

#14. Note to self: buy some nunchucks or something.

Cynthia Hand

#15. We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.

William Hazlitt