Quotes About Lairds

#1. [Connor to Major Wentworth, grandson of King George]
My fathers were lairds in the Highlands when yours were still farmin' kale back in Germany!

Pamela Clare

#2. Godfrey Bertram of Ellangowan succeeded to a long pedigree and a short rent-roll, like many lairds of that period.

Walter Scott

#3. Action always happens in the present, because it is an expression of the body, which can only exist in the here and now. But the mind is like a phantom that lives only in the past or future. It's only power over you is to draw your attention our of the present.

Dan Millman

#4. I'm looking to show people I'm a running back.

Brandon Jacobs

#5. You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

Jeanette Winterson

#6. Love is the soul of the universe; joy is its heartbeat.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.]

Plautus

#8. Women occupy, in great masses, the 'household tasks' of industry. They are nurses but not doctors, secretaries but not executives, researchers but not writers, workers but not managers, bookkeepers but not promoters.

Vivian Gornick

#9. Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.

Gordon Brown