Sir Gibbie Quotes

#1. The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison.

Nicholas Kristof

#2. Curiosity keeps me alive.

Roberto Burle Marx

#3. Had peace and quiet become so rare that when finally found they could be mistaken for something grotesque and unnatural? It would appear so.

Louise Penny

#4. I don't think this is working out between us," I told him. "You and I want different things. It's not me, it's you.

T.J. Klune

#5. Now Gibbie had been honoured with the acquaintance of many dogs, and the friendship of most of them, for a lover of humanity can hardly fail to be a lover of caninity.

George MacDonald

#6. If princes and kings were not exalted they might be overthrown.

Laozi

#7. She had now no inclination to trouble Gibbie's heart with what men call the plan of salvation. It was enough to her to find that he followed her Master. Being in the light she understood the light, and had no need of system, either true or false, to explain it to her.

George MacDonald

#8. He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.

Benjamin Franklin