Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6

I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.

John Shelton Reed

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Robin Hobb

That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

Haile Gebrselassie

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

George Herbert

I look back to a happy childhood.

Catherine Helen Spence

You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.

Henry David Thoreau

My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.

T-Pain

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes.

Henry Courtney

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Lionel Trilling

Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

Elizabeth Gaskell

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'

John Greenleaf Whittier, "Maud M