Shrewsbury Quotes

#1. But there stands the sword of my ancestor Sir Richard Vernon, slain at Shrewsbury, and sorely slandered by a sad fellow called Will Shakspeare, whose Lancastrian partialities, and a certain knack at embodying them, has turned history upside down, or rather inside out.

Walter Scott

#2. The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career; yet it depended on so small a circumstance as my uncle offering to drive me 30 miles to Shrewsbury, which few uncles would have done, and on such a trifle as the shape of my nose.

Charles Darwin

#3. I grew up in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts and went to college in Washington D.C.

Mike Birbiglia

#4. Great men always pay deference to greater.

Walter Savage Landor

#5. know she's hard to deal with right now, but we have to believe that she'll beat this. If we don't, she won't." "I will try, Mom, but it's hard to have faith when I see what she is doing to this family.

Sandra Shrewsbury

#6. But what I've learned is, when your adrenaline is flowing, you can do a lot. I'm not very physical, but once some punks were trying to break into my house and I chased them down.

Sara Paretsky

#7. The person you want to be is more important than the person you used to be.

June Shrewsbury

#8. Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle,
Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other.
Thirty years now I have labored
To dredge the silt from your throat.
I am none the wiser.

Sylvia Plath

#9. Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

George Chapman

#10. It would be a den for overgrown children looking for an indulgence, something nostalgic, something simultaneously luxurious and youthful. Much like a pharmaceutical drug or being in love, Annie's cupcakes would make you feel better.

Meg Donohue

#11. The world's crawling with stupid,
innocent girls, and I'm just one of them, self-consciously
chasing after dreams that'll never come true. I should shut the
piano lid and come down off the stage. Before it's too late.

Haruki Murakami