Character Quote by Angela Armstrong

“Too many people, when listing all the perils to be found in the search for lost treasure or ancient wisdom, had forgotten to put…

— Terry Pratchett

“There the old Eskimo hunters she had known in her childhood thought the riches of life were intelligence, fearlessness, and love. A man with…

— Jean Craighead George

“In his time the City was made more fair than it had ever been, even in the days of its first glory; and it…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“They overdid everything, especially their greed for money. All three generations of Rumanian Hohenzollerns had a passion for wealth and were incredibly stingy besides,…

— R.G. Waldeck

“he saw that all the struggles of life were incessant, laborious, painful, that nothing was done quickly, without labor, that it had to undergo…

— Jack Kerouac

“One night, returning to the house, he went into his father’s shed. He stared at the unsold pots and the vases on the shelves,…

— Paul Yoon

“Many things are found hidden beneath the ground. Men and kings and ancient warriors and the weapons they forged. All are eventually buried.”

— Brian Lee Durfee

“People—communities, castes, races and even countries—carry their tragic histories and their misfortunes around like trophies, or like stock, to be bought and sold on…

— Arundhati Roy

“But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but who want to look rich, though all…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Yes, I think a lot happened here. This fountain in the wall. Pico and Lorenzo and Poliziano and the young Michelangelo. They held in…

— Michael Ondaatje

“History pays no heed to the unspectacular citizen who worked hard all day and walked at night to a humble home with dust on…

— Thomas B. Costain

“People – communities, castes, races and even countries – carry their tragic histories and their misfortunes around like trophies, or like stock, to be…

— Arundhati Roy