Quotes About Magwitch

#1. I know'd my name to be Magwitch, chrisen'd Abel. How did I know it? Much as I know'd the birds' names in the hedges to be chaffinch, sparrer, thrush. I might have thought it was all lies together, only as the birds' names come out true, I suppose mine did.

Charles Dickens

#2. Australia! Australians! Surely it's still full of Magwitch-types, lumbering oafs with shaven pates and broken noses on the run from whatever law there is, chucking kangaroo heads on the barbie as they read their awful bush poetry.

Dave Franklin

#3. Commerce is really as interesting as nature.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. Partitioning Iraq is inevitable, as shown by history.

Joe Biden

#5. That's what innocence is, you know. A blissful oblivion of what's coming, of what you'll lose and what you'll gain, and what kind of person you'll grow up to be.

Laura Wiess

#6. It's an academic book, and it's discussed under academic criteria. German historians cultivate so-called objectivity. They persuade themselves that they can switch off the subjective and therefore the unsettling.

Gotz Aly

#7. The engagements I had with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles were about reaching out and showing respect to the unionist people. I also recognised that when someone like her makes acts of reconciliation as she did do at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin, she is 100% behind the peace process.

Martin McGuinness

#8. Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough for them to procreate,back in the day when girls got pregnant at twelve, were pregnant or nursing for the next twenty years, and were dead of the plague by forty.

Jennifer Weiner

#9. Our public spaces are as profound as we allow them to be,

Candy Chang

#10. There was something pathetic in his concentration, as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him anymore.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. As women professional athletes, you have to have respect for every player and individual. Beyond that, it doesn't matter what your interests are. People can have their own lives.

Hope Solo

#12. I believe there should be no more drama, but it's everywhere you go. It's just about how you get out. You've gotta bob and weave because it's everywhere. How do I keep the drama low? It's about using your head.

Mary J. Blige

#13. Your grasp, even in fury, would have a charm for me ...

Charlotte Bronte