Scion Quotes

#1. Faith is the vital artery of the soul. When we begin to believe, we begin to love. Faith grafts the soul into Christ, as the scion into the stock, and fetches all its nutriment from the blessed Vine.

Richard Watson

#2. Infallible perception was definitely a downside of dating a Scion.

K.C. King

#3. Truth does not become untruth simply because its existence upsets the scion of a High House.

Jim Butcher

#4. They are gone now. Fled, banished in death or exile, lost, undone. Over the land sun and wind still move to burn and sway the trees, the grasses. No avatar, no scion, no vestige of that people remains. On the lips of the strange race that now dwells there their names are myth, legend, dust.

Cormac McCarthy

#5. My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts.

Kathy Griffin

#6. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so viscious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived as noble and godlike.

Mary Shelley

#7. Healers make the most dreadful enemies, Scion of the House of Strong-in-the-Arm. The knowledge that saves lives can be used to do exactly the opposite. Especially when they have the blood of the Wise Ones in their veins.

Stuart Hill

#8. Looking at this stuff, hearing you describe it all, I'm starting to think that maybe we'll destroy ourselves in the end. Infighting, stupidity, revenge, all of that. Humanity will clean up whatever members of humanity Scion leaves alive, or leave us too screwed up to bounce back.

Wildbow

#9. Well you stick the dynamite in the keyhole and you don't damage the safe, only sometimes you put a little too much in and blow the safe door up, but other times you're lucky and the safe just comes open.
Thus the scion of a great banking dynasty learned how to rob a bank.

Ben Macintyre

#10. Death is inevitable. Life is too. Even if Scion succeeds, there will be some who remain, because they hid well enough, because they aren't interesting or different enough to kill. Life, death, a binary.

Wildbow

#11. I had lived in that part of London that used to be called Islington since I was eight. I attended a private school for girls, leaving at sixteen to work. That was in the year 2056. AS 127, if you use the Scion calendar.

Samantha Shannon

#12. It says he's rich. It also says he's a scion. What the heck is a scion? Sounds like some kind of refrigerator or a car.

Jayne Castle

#13. It's weird, but Scion is kind of cool. I couldn't drive one because I'd look like one of those McDonald's Happy Meal toys with giant heads sticking out the window.

Brian Posehn

#14. But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this that you call love to bea sect or scion ... It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will.

William Shakespeare

#15. Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head?

Lord Byron

#16. Humans crave knowledge. It's a defining element in our species. Something we don't see in animals in that same way, something we don't see in Scion, unless it's a craving that takes a very different form in execution.

Wildbow

#17. O son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

#18. In flawed families, a scion appears who dedicates himself to the truth and who ruins himself in its pursuit.

Emil Cioran

#19. From the very start, if there was a spotlight, I would step into it. My parents wondered what to do with this insufferable show-off. They chose acting for me, and I'm very grateful I can still make a living from it.

Honeysuckle Weeks

#20. I would never see him again.
But as I watched the tunnel race before my eyes, I was certain of one thing: I did trust him.
Now I had only to trust in myself.

Samantha Shannon

#21. Some people lose their nerve for riding or skiing or driving; well, I've lost my nerve for life.

Sophie Kinsella

#22. Not all of us know what we are. Some of us die without ever knowing. Some of us know, and never get caught. But we're out there.
Trust me.

Samantha Shannon

#23. Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and ... know nothing but the word of God.

Martin Luther

#24. I like to imagine there were more of us in the beginning. Not many, I suppose. But more than there are now.

Samantha Shannon

#25. When a president's popularity grows, the he is doing wrong things.

Debasish Mridha

#26. We want to be seen for who we really are, and each person has his own complex story and reasons for doing what they do.

Annette Bening

#27. They'd branded me like some kind of animal.
Lower than an animal.
A number.

Samantha Shannon

#28. This book is about a salvation that takes place within our unknowing and dissatisfaction,

Peter Rollins

#29. She is one of those ladies who is more beautiful at sixty than she could possibly have been at twenty. (how I hope someone says that about me someday)!

Mary Ann Shaffer

#30. What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed.

William Stanley Jevons

#31. You are the one who takes the peace away from yourself. You are the one who's harming yourself.

Sandra Harner

#32. One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.

Aristophanes