Quotern

Quotern

We don't stop hiking because we grow old - we grow old because we stop hiking

-- Finis Mitchell

Copy Detail

Press conference [on the movie ] yielded the usual crop of daftness. I've been asked if I related personally to Carrington's tortured relationship with sex and replied that no, not really, I'd had a very pleasant time since I was fifteen. This elicited very disapproving copy from the Brits ... No wonder people think we don't sex in England.

-- Emma Thompson

Copy Detail

A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment.

-- Jessica Mitford

Copy Detail

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

-- Zelda Fitzgerald

Copy Detail

We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.

-- Elisabeth Elliot

Copy Detail

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.

-- Nick Lampson

Copy Detail

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

-- Joseph Campbell

Copy Detail

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

-- Dwight David Eisenhower

Copy Detail

As long as he lived, he was the guiding-star of a whole brave nation, and when he died the little children cried in the street.

-- John Lothrop Motley

Copy Detail

My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize.

Copy Detail