quotes about Meg

“Your hair is so white now it can talk back to the police.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.”

“If they want to know if prostitutes are positive, they should test the Vice cops.”

“We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.”

“After 9/11, we had to look at the world differently. After 9/11, we had to recognize that when we saw a threat, we must take it seriously before it comes to hurt us. In the old days we'd see a threat, and we could deal with it if we felt like it or not. But 9/11 changed it all.”

“Thirty years ago, my sister, Gale (so named because a gale hit Boston Harbor the night she was born), some friends and I stole a boat in the middle of the night and sailed it out of the Santa Barbara harbor. Suddenly we were becalmed and the current began pushing us toward the breakwall. With no running lights and no power, we were dead in the water. Out of that darkness a steel hull appeared: it was the local Coast Guard cutter. My father, stern-faced and displeased, stood in the bow.”

“Whatever was written in the media was beyond me. The only thing I could control was getting fit.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com

“To understand a cat, you must realize that he has has own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality”

Source : Lilian Jackson Braun (2006). “Two Cats, Three Tales”, p.68, Penguin

“I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.”

“Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us like a fugitive bird unable to fly, unable to land.”

Source : Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.86, Princeton University Press