Rookeries Quotes

#1. Now there are some people, not you of course, who would say we should go to the authorities, and this is because they have no grasp at all of the realities of London for the lower classes; no grasp at all of the rookeries and the detritus of decay and squalor that is their lot. Yes?

Terry Pratchett

#2. Only education can empty the workhouses and prisons, the slums and rookeries.

Jennifer Donnelly

#3. She smiled at the idea of being a captive princess in the rookeries, or a restrained mouse in the glitter of the ton.

Michelle Diener

#4. I know about investment. It's really obvious - you buy property, let it sit for a couple of years and then sell it and reinvest.

Melanie Brown

#5. There are many photos of Eisenstein. I think he was quite vain, and he liked photos of him. Being a virgin at 33 is strange now, but let's not be too high-minded about that.

Peter Greenaway

#6. Peace can only be achieved by letting go of the past and accepting what is.

Abhishek Kumar

#7. Magic, indeed, is all around us, in stones, flowers, stars, the dawn wind and the sunset cloud; all we need is the ability to see and understand.

Doreen Valiente

#8. Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

Neil Gaiman

#9. That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.

Stephen Hadley

#10. Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.

William Dean Howells

#11. Every moment brings a choice; every choice has an impact.

Julia Hill

#12. May the life you lead be a good one, a life free of regrets.

Haruki Murakami

#13. If he who has control of men ought not to control the laws, then he who controls the laws ought not control men: otherwise his laws would minister to his passions..

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#14. Childhood bullying was a big part of my life.

Michael Steger

#15. Then we drove out past the sandy lots of stillborn subdivisions that had gone silent in '08. Eventually, a gray wall appeared, blocking the view of the gated community from the street.

James Patterson

#16. The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love.

Mother Teresa

#17. Faith is only a word if there is no love at its center, so flaccid and lifeless, vague and hollow - not anything you could truly feel.

Elif Shafak

#18. Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.

Anthony Kiedis