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Eva Ibbotson has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were…
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It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even…
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She stood looking carefully at the labeled portraits Ursala had put up: Little Crow, Chief of the Santees, Geronimo, last of the…
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But she had to know words. She had to know everything.
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She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know?…
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And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not…
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one of the sisters started shaving her legs and marrying tax inspectors, so she was no good.
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She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a…
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter…
— Daniel Boone
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I always use my 'Holy Trinity' which is salt, olive oil and bacon. My motto is, 'bacon always makes it better.' I…
— Anne Burrell
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive…
— Yasser Arafat
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of…
— Marcus Aurelius
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When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the…
— Lawrence Durrell
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The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
— Thucydides
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I detest . . . anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as long as…
— Sybille Bedford
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