Rurik Quotes

#1. Oblonsy was fond of a pleasant joke, and sometimes liked to perplex a simple-minded man by observing that if you're going to be proud of your ancestry, why stop short at Prince Rurik and repudiate your oldest ancestor - the ape?

Leo Tolstoy

#2. Women, music, beer, and pie. Rurik, you're just an all-American guy.

Linda Howard

#3. Stepan Arkadyevitch, who liked a joke, was fond of puzzling a plain man by saying that if he prided himself on his origin, he ought not to stop at Rurik and disown the first founder of his family
the monkey.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth ...

Christina Rossetti

#5. To make a perfect horseman, three things are requisite. First, to know how and when to help your horse. Secondly, how and when to correct him. And thirdly, how and when to praise him and to make much of him.

Thomas Blundeville

#6. I'm not going to quit. Why should I quit? This country is worth fighting for.

Hillary Clinton

#7. It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!

Alice James

#8. When you experience the joy of bringing joy into someone else's life, then you know what joy is.

Nathaniel Phillips

#9. I feel like shoes are one of those things that no matter how conservative or how outrageous you get, a good pair of shoes is going to last you a lifetime.

Melanie Fiona