Spurge Quotes

#1. No prince had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast growing spurge.

Cornelia Funke

#2. You're judging her by her literacy," Tara says. "You're a literacist."
"You've made that up.

Melina Marchetta

#3. All I knew about shot putting was that my brother could do 44 feet ... I decided I wanted to beat him ... So I got a shot and went to work and made up my mind to do 45 feet.

Bruce Bennett

#4. That you don't make war without knowing why.

Tim O'Brien

#5. Many people see Eva Peron as either a saint or the incarnation of Satan. That means I definitely can identify with her.

Madonna Ciccone

#6. More than husband and consort, Albert was everything to Victoria, and Osborne was unthinkable without him.

Sarah Ferguson

#7. Stout was a leader - quiet, unselfish, modest, yet very strong, very thoughtful and remarkably innovative. Whether speaking or writing, he was economical with words, precise, vivid. One believed what he said; one wanted to do what he proposed. Neither

Robert M. Edsel

#8. I'm always surprised when some director says, 'When I saw this film, that changed my life.' I don't have that.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#9. There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#10. Fallen from sonship, beggared of grace,
Grant me. Father, a servant's place.

Christina Rossetti