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Susanna Kearsley Quotes

I grew up in a very small town where nearly everyone knew each other, and odds were that whatever you said about a person would make it back to them by nightfall - something incomers learned, to their frequent embarrassment.

Susanna Kearsley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: canadian

Topics

Small You Back Small Town Person Up

I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn't any good.

Jerry Lee Lewis

Good Fire River Never Piano Away

When I was a kid, we lived in Italy, which isn't really known for figure skating. I think that's why I excelled so well. I spent a lot of my high school years training.

Meta Golding

Training School High School Think

When you collect bad loans... you sure learn a lot about making good ones. You also learn a lot about the power of persuasion, persistence and desperation.

John Stumpf

Good Power Persistence Learn You

I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During the Depression in the United States, everybody had a tough time. And I was so hurt because she was crying that she didn't have any food for us for Thanksgiving.

Tony Bennett

Work Time Depression Food Mom Hurt

For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

Today Beautiful People World Looking

My parents were very, very good about not separating us as kids from their adult friends. So on any given night, we'd have, like, this kind of freak show - artists and art dealers coming over. And these are the people I feel like I learned from.

Mike D

Good Art Parents People Night Feel

I have a vision that's about technology that empowers consumers over institutions.

Michael K. Powell

Technology Vision Over Consumers

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.

Jose Saramago

Home Beach Saying Political You

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

Chinua Achebe

History Experience People World Own

Never would I switch to Bayern.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Never Would Switch

The world does not need another credit card.

Suze Orman

World Credit Credit Card Need Does

So many of my songs are based on things that either happened to me or to someone I know, but there are also ones where I've written a made-up story. All of them are about very real emotions, and I just find different ways to express them.

Shawn Mendes

Me Story Someone Find Emotions Know