Quotes About Pewter

#1. Well ... I had braces and I had to wear headgear! I loved my braces, actually. For me, they were like a piece of jewelry! Instead of the silver or pewter I had gold braces. It was so much fun, I loved them. I got to change the colors and stuff and I had the rubber bands.

Jordin Sparks

#2. the English drinking their 'alf and 'alf out of pewter mugs, the French drinking their claret out of very thin glasses, while our Russian shipmates and ourselves drank something harder out of thick glasses which were very small at the bottom.

Charles Erskine

#3. With his pewter-colored locks and sturdy jaw, Graham Seymour was the archetypal British civil servant, a man who'd been born, bred, and educated to lead. He was handsome, but not too; he was tall, but not remarkably so. He made others feel inferior, especially Americans.

Daniel Silva

#4. It is a wan morning, low unbroken cloud; the light, filtering sparely through glass, is the color of tarnished pewter. How brightly colored the king is, like the king in a new pack of cards: how small his flat blue eye. There

Hilary Mantel

#5. The late afternoon sun, trapped beneath a wall of pewter, stained the clouds a yellowish gray, making the sky unusually bright. It felt surreal, as if the horizon had disappeared beyond the hills. She was stranded in a world of glass.

Sarah J. Maas

#6. God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels.

John Crowe Ransom

#7. Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy of the name, to drink.

Guy De Maupassant

#8. She had a lot of face and chin. She had pewter-colored hair set in a ruthless permanent, a hard beak and moist eyes with the sympathetic expression of wet stones.

Raymond Chandler

#9. She was a woman whose spirit had been hammered and forged until she could only ring true. Compared with the rest of us sho was silver, while we were pewter, a common of lead and tin.

Philippa Gregory

#10. In the murky puddle of rainwater collected at the entrance of the tomb, I spied my own reflection,a dark, hatted figure against a pewter sky.

Linda Lappin

#11. As the sun rose I could see Etna, a truncated cone with a plume of smoke over it like the quill of a pen stuck in a pewter inkpot, rising out of the haze to the north of where I was treading water.

Eric Newby

#12. In her relief, Eleanor had stood for a time in the darkened room, watching the faint undulations on the lake, silver-rimmed clouds being drawn across the pewter sky, nursing the uncanny sense of being the only person on earth awake.

Kate Morton

#13. He may be King Redrought Strong-in-the-Arm Lindenshield, Bear of the North, Defender of the Realm, Descendent of Thor, but to Thirrin he was just Dad, a man with a fondness for cats, a taste for comfy slippers and a huge laugh that could dent pewter at fifty paces.

Stuart Hill

#14. When Julia was twenty-nine, her hair was already bar-coded. Now, at sixty-two, it was a solid helmet of bright pewter, level with her lean, brown jawbone.

Craig Raine

#15. She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride. Nothing had ever tasted so good as the cool golden ale she swallowed from a pewter tankard. She slept deeply that night and longer than she had intended ...

Kathleen Winsor

#16. showed where the ancient pewter teapot had leaked. At the other end was a scattering of crumbs left by the

Winston Graham

#17. Compared with the rest of us she was silver, while we were pewter, a common mixture of lead and tin.

Philippa Gregory

#18. Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.

Pat Conroy

#19. When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.

W.S. Gilbert

#20. The pewter sea lay behind, while ahead of him was all the land that led to Berwick, where once again there would be sea. He had started; and in doing so Harold could already see the end.

Rachel Joyce

#21. Landscape is more than flat land covered by floodwater, the seeping of peat bogs, a river of liquid pewter viewed from a sentry tower. It's an influence on what a person values, what she is willing to sacrifice or argue for.

Susan Vreeland

#22. He smiled. The ability to drink and not grow drunk - an advantage of pewter that nobody had told him about. There had to be a way to use such a skill.

Brandon Sanderson

#23. StocktontoMalone

Hot Rod Hundley

#24. Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China.

John Bruton

#25. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

Regina Brett

#26. Children are born to break their mothers' hearts, my boy.

Sabaa Tahir

#27. For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?

Attila The Hun

#28. Sour taste of obligation postponed,

Roland Merullo

#29. Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there's a danger: a constituent who actually wants something done. Or worse, a campaign donor who might be offended by that something.

Bill McKibben

#30. I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse.

Claire Danes

#31. I love picking people. I started Blackstone, and we had no people, and now we have with our portfolio companies about 750,000 people all over the world. Everybody who is at a senior level has ultimately been picked by me.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

#32. We need to unleash the military in unison with our partners in Europe and the Middle East to be effective.

Jeb Bush