Thatched Cottage Quotes

#1. An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain,Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again;The birds singing gayly, that came at my call,Give me them, and that peace of mind dearer than all.

John Howard Payne

#2. Cyril, church warden and lead tenor in the choir, lives with mother, banned from unsupervised contact with schoolchildren; Harold, drunk dentist, early retirement, pretty thatched cottage off the Bodmin road, one son in rehab, wife in the bin.

John Le Carre

#3. An English village could never be mistaken for an American one: the outline against the sky differs; a thatched cottage makes a very wavy line on the blue above.

Maria Mitchell

#4. I was born and grew up in Vandalia, Illinois, a small town of about 6,000. It was farm country, and this was the little county seat.

June Squibb

#5. I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

Rand Paul

#6. Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.

George Iles

#7. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

William Faulkner

#8. I was my own girl, and no one was walking on this carpet but me.

Darynda Jones

#9. In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

Ray Bradbury

#10. The Bible is just a book. But, you choose whether to prove it's all true or nothing.

Shim Steward

#11. Musically, it's difficult to believe Jim has only two hands and one set of vocal cords. You would think that there were a dozen of him if you closed your eyes and listened. From a visual artist's standpoint, Jim is a man of a thousand faces, all spellbinding.

Jeff Mathews

#12. The idea of a world where all people are alike - in wealth or in anything else - is a fantasy for the stupid.

P. J. O'Rourke

#13. I wish I could recommend the experience of not being killed to everyone.

Tim Kreider