Alice Longfellow Quotes

I can't believe that we are calculating the amount of light years used to travel Space-Chase Model 3.0 to Pluto!" shrieked Alice, bouncing up and down in a totally undignified way for her 14-year-old self. "I'm sure what you just said makes perfect sense to you." grumbled Olivia,as she glared at the marble-white,slippery floor of the CAST lobby. Alice stared at her with aggravation. She'd once read a book on face reading, and Olivia's emotions rung clear- It wasn't fair that she was here,and not at home,downloading a hot new song on iTunes or something. Everybody here was totally spaced out. ~ Chloe Gadsby-Jones

A certain kind of seriousness in a girl could cancel out looks ~ Alice Munro

Bring it on home, Wallbanger ~ Alice Clayton

Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves. ~ Alice Walker

No man in the New City could love her as Hatcher did - of that Alice was certain. It was deep and all-consuming but somehow never suffocating. It was unselfish. It did not ask for anything and yet he made no secret of his need. There was no one in the world like Hatcher, and if she hadn't been mad, there would be no Hatcher for her. ~ Christina Henry

People who deal in truth themselves recognize it when they hear it, just as people who deal in diamonds recognize a real stone when they see it. ~ Alice Duer Miller

In the act of reading, especially reading fiction, where a world is being created, all kinds of matters of belief come into play. ~ Alice McDermott

I have to be careful, as I don't want to offend Midlanders, but growing up, it wasn't like growing up in London. Anything you were interested in, you'd be able to find someone also interested in it. In the Midlands, nobody came out as gay at my school at all. ~ Alice Lowe

Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, "What road do I take?"
The cat asked, "Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it really doesn't matter, does it? ~ Lewis Carroll

She definitely wasn't what I thought she was.'

'She wasn't a maniacal fan, you mean?'

'She was a maniacal fan, but I don't think the maniacal fans are what I thought they were. Well, not all of them, anyway.'

'They're just a bit normal, really,' I say.

'Or we're all weird.'

'You can say that again. ~ Alice Oseman

But they say just like they know history before the white children start to come, they know the future after the biggest of 'em leave. They say they know these particular children and they gon kill each other off, they still so mad bout being unwanted. Gon kill off a lot of other folk too who got some color. In fact, they gon kill off so much of the earth and the colored that everybody gon hate them just like they hate us today. Then they will become the new serpent. And wherever a white person is found he'll be crush by somebody not white, just like they do us today. ~ Alice Walker

The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail. ~ Alice Miller

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry. ~ Alice Walker

And how do you know that you're mad? "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" I suppose so, said Alice. "Well then," the Cat went on, "you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad. ~ Lewis Carroll

I'm gonna die,' I say again, as we're walking out of the tube station towards the O2 arena. 'I'm gonna die. I'm literally gonna die.'
'Wouldn't recommend that,' says Juliet, as if she's been on a two-week holiday to Death and gave it two out of five on TripAdvisor. ~ Alice Oseman

Ironically, there isn't much comedy film in Britain, which is quite surprising seeing that we're quite good at it. ~ Alice Lowe

Happiness," he says, "is the price of profound thought."
"Who's that quote from?" I ask.
He winks. "Me. ~ Alice Oseman

The rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears ... ~ Alice Dunbar Nelson

Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness. ~ Alice Cary

Have you ever thought that the only ugly things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains. ~ Catherine Marshall

How alarmed that same courageous Friedrich von Schiller would have been if someone had said to him, "You don't need to honor your father. People who have done you such harm do not deserve your love or respect, even if they are your parents. The price you pay for such filial devotion is appalling, the terrible physical torments you repeatedly go through. You can free yourself of them if you no longer obey the Fourth Commandment." What would Schiller have said to that? ~ Alice Miller

She had come to believe that if her father had wanted a docile daughter, he should never have allowed her access to the ocean. ~ Alice Hoffman

A dead tree, cut into planks and read from one end to the other, is a kind of line graph, with dates down one side and height along the other, as if trees, like mathematicians, had found a way of turning time into form. ~ Alice Oswald

She takes a breath and holds it. In middle school the girls used to have contests to see who could hold their breath the longest; Alice once held it until she fainted. ~ Erika Swyler

Emphasis should be laid on the evolution of humanity, ~ Alice Bailey

Love like this was all consuming. I found that I was jealous of the strangest things - sunlight, streets, curtains, even her clothing, anything that was close to her. ~ Alice Hoffman

The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live with the darkness of fear, oppression, and threats. When all its attempts to move the adult to heed its story have failed, it resorts to the language of symptoms to make itself heard. Enter addiction, psychosis, criminality. ~ Alice Miller

I think when we finally get what we think we want, it loses its value. It's the secret nobody ever shares, because if they did, we would all stop trying. ~ Alice Feeney

Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her. ~ Alice Hoffman

Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that. ~ Alice Sebold

She wears high tech Devo suit, she changed her name to Xerox, she hides quaaludes in her boots. ~ Alice Cooper