Unearthing America Quotes

#1. Did she just say "wife?

Corinne Michaels

#2. Sometimes you can't save people, and sometimes they don't want to be saved.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#3. I'm not going to let you walk out on me again."
"I'm not walking out on you Tucker. I'm walking out on us.

R.S. Burnett

#4. The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility, the vote, punishment ... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

Dennis Prager

#5. I can't speak for them, of course, but I believe that most economists would accept the view that, while you sometimes can make a score by sheer luck, you can't do it constantly, unless you're willing to put the resources in.

Merton Miller

#6. The law of sowing and reaping is the most trustworthy law of behavior.

Henry Cloud

#7. If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.

Omar Epps

#8. The irony of fanaticism is that there is always another group more radical than the previous one.

Sam Fitzgerald

#9. Ethiopia always has a special place in my imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia attracted me more strongly than a trip to France, England, and America combined. I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African.

Nelson Mandela

#10. I ... great, I can talk again."
"Well." Charlie shrugged. "Paradise can only last so long, right?

Samantha Young

#11. None but the dead have free speech.

Mark Twain

#12. For me, cooking is a way to try and please people and tell them I love them. When I fall in love with someone, I want to feed them as well.

Ruth Reichl

#13. Now the oppa is the object of romantic affection - the manly man, the stud. You

Javabeans

#14. Lucian is nothing to me. What you saw in that office was bizarre. He must've been high on power or meth.

Jenny Trout

#15. Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.

A. B. Yehoshua

#16. Hell, your kid is fucking my wife, and your wife is fucking me. [ ... ]
Not that she's any good, Zane said, looking at Georgia, and when she made a little cry of protest, he added, Hell Georgia, even Jell-O moves when you eat it.

Jennifer Crusie