Vesey Quotes

#1. It will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all.

Wilkie Collins

#2. Mr. Vesey, though, he didn't like any kind of talk about heaven. He said that was the coward's way, pining for life in the hereafter, acting like this one didn't mean a thing. I had to side with him on that.

Sue Monk Kidd

#3. Some of us rush through life and some of us saunter through life. Mrs. Vesey sat through life.

Wilkie Collins

#4. Her calculations were sometimes a little fuzzy, for the same reason that her checkbook sometimes did not balance; Becky Vesey (as she had been known as a child) had never really mastered the multiplication tables and she was inclined to confuse sevens with nines.

Robert A. Heinlein

#5. Becky Vesey always gave good advice and she gave it with great conviction because she always believed it.

Robert A. Heinlein

#6. If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is.

Jack Butler Yeats

#7. Trial by jury in civil causes, ... trial by jury in criminal causes, [and] the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus ... all stand on the same footing; they are the common rights of Americans.

Richard Henry Lee

#8. When I was very young, before I could read, I remember being very interested in comic books.

Nathan Fillion

#9. I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.

Henry Ward Beecher

#10. Britain has always been a home to the vulnerable, and we've always done what we need to do to help people who are fleeing persecution.

George Osborne

#11. Obviously I'm not a violent person; I don't like violence, but I would definitely go into defending myself if the situation arose.

Michelle Ryan

#12. The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

Francis Quarles

#13. The Christian needs to walk in peace, so no matter what happens they will be able to bear witness to a watching world.

Henry Blackaby

#14. At the end of the day music is a grind. You're constantly working at it and even with playing shows as well. If your schedule isn't planned right it could really throw things off, but honestly at the end of the day its incredible being able to go to so many places.

James Vincent McMorrow

#15. Yes, Mr. Popham is a Methodist and I'm a Congregationalist, but I say let the children go where they like, so I always take them with me.

Kate Douglas Wiggin

#16. If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.

A. E. Waite

#17. You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.

Rick James

#18. Time makes everything old so the kissing, young darkness became a monstropolous old thing while Janie talked.

Zora Neale Hurston

#19. I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind.

George S. Patton

#20. If you have a smartphone, you can give content to the world. The days of putting a movie in movie theaters because people don't have a choice is over.

Ryan Kavanaugh