Sawhill Generation Quotes

#1. I am rather observant, and have a habit of putting things together. I tell you that so that you may be careful when you don't want me to know a thing.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#2. One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility.

Peter Kreeft

#3. General Grant seriously remarked to a particularly bright young woman that Venice would be a fine city if it were drained.

Henry Adams

#4. I know that man who shows me his wealth
is like the beggar who shows me his poverty;
they are both looking for alms from me,
the rich man for the alms of my envy,
the poor one for the alms of my guilt.

Ben Hecht

#5. He had to witness how a ginger German with a v-neck that almost went as low as his navel drew all the attention to himself.

John Duover

#6. President Obama has decided that he wants his presidential library to be in Chicago, not Hawaii. Today Hawaii's governor said, 'Great, who's going to want to come to Hawaii now?'

Conan O'Brien

#7. There's nothing you could do to me now that I wouldn't want. -Kingsley

Tiffany Reisz

#8. I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then ... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.

Julian Lennon

#9. The world has changed from quality to quantity, and so have we.

Santosh Kalwar

#10. I'm always changing my work, as there are endless ways to think about food.

Alice Waters

#11. You make us look bad', complained Toad.
'You looked bad before I ever met you', Jon told him.

George R R Martin

#12. Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

Gregory David Roberts

#13. I've had marriage proposals, invitations to military balls and even a few prom offers from 18-year-old boys.

Hope Solo

#14. France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.

Rich Lowry