Travaillez Quotes

#1. Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early in the Vietnam war, on hearing I had three sons.

Adrienne Rich

#2. Aphrodite," [Annabeth] said.
"Venus?" Hazel asked in amazement.
"Mom," Piper said with no enthusiasm.
"Girls!" The goddess spread her arms like she wanted a group hug.
The three demigods did not oblige. Hazel backed into a palmetto tree.

Rick Riordan

#3. Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.

Alexander Pope

#4. Some people are scared of dying. Never be afraid to die. Because you're born to die.

Walter Breuning

#5. Stop shakin' your head, Griselda Schroeder, because this is my truth, and I am sharing it with you, and you need to respect that.

Katy Regnery

#6. Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.

Angelique Kidjo

#7. I moved my feet in a vague shuffle, and remembered somewhere that when you walked, you moved them alternately. This improved our progress considerably.

Jim Butcher

#8. In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world.

Jay Griffiths