Welland Quotes

#1. Denied access to information about important arenas of human life, history, and art, women like Augusta Welland demonstrate well into adulthood a lack of moral insight and sympathetic compassion.

Edith Wharton

#2. Do you think Kinkade is Welland-Dowd? she wondered
Chase burst into laughter so booming that every head on the street rotated, startled.
Oh,God. She'd just understood when she'd said it aloud.
Welland-Dowd.
Well-endowed.

Julie Anne Long

#3. Who among us is free? Only those who see their chains know what freedom means.-pg. 123 Welland Hevington, A Memoir The Demon's Daughter

Emma Holly

#4. Lavender's my favorite scent, after White-Out and bacon rind. I sat down on the steps, not sure where to go next.
A July afternoon yawned.
Mirage puddles'd shimmered on the Welland road as I rode here.
I could've gone to sleep on the baked doorstep.
Little naked ants.

David Mitchell

#5. Newland never seems to look ahead,' Mrs. Welland once ventured to complain to her daughter; and May answered serenely:
'No; but you see it doesn't matter, because when there's nothing particular to do he reads a book.

Edith Wharton

#6. Moonlight, white satin, roses. A bride.

Angela Carter

#7. Anyone who's seen the Wigan [League] players stripped has been faced with the raw truth of the matter ... No time for male modelling, and even Princess Di would think twice about getting too close to that lot.

Colin Welland

#8. Depending on which biologist you speak to, between thirty-six and forty total phyla are recognized on our planet. Rainforests, our flagships of biodiversity, are known to contain sixteen phyla. The spaces in between sand grains are home to twenty-two.

Michael Welland

#9. One of the marvelous things about Churchill is that whatever he was doing, whether fighting or arguing or despairing or bouncing about full of energy, jokes are never far away.

Paul Johnson

#10. In south west Lancashire, babies don't toddle, they side-step. Queuing women talk of 'nipping round the blindside'. Rugby league provides our cultural adrenalin. It's a physical manifestation of our rules of life, comradeship, honest endeavour, and a staunch, often ponderous allegiance to fair play.

Colin Welland

#11. You have no romance in your soul," Poppy told Harry at intermission. "Not in my soul, no," he replied gravely. "However, I have a great deal of it in other locations."
-Poppy & Harry

Lisa Kleypas

#12. We're two sides of the same tragic coin. It's like we were tied together before we even met.

Robyn Schneider

#13. How happy she was, how elated!

Joyce Carol Oates

#14. Suffering is the common lot of man.

Theresa Breslin

#15. The boundaries of our personal prayer lives often have less to do with biblical restrictions and more to do with the limitations we place on them.

Adam Stadtmiller

#16. Our lives change externally as we change internally.

Caroline Myss

#17. I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.

Bo Bice

#18. There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca