Civilians Quote by Jeannette Walls

“When Dad wasn’t telling us about all the amazing things he had already done, he was telling us about the wondrous things he was…

— Jeannette Walls

“That was the thing to remember about all monsters, Dad said: They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they…

— Jeannette Walls

“Dad’s favorite subject was history, but he taught it with a decidedly west-of-the-Pecos point of view. As the proud son of an Irishman, he…

— Jeannette Walls

“Poor old Venus didn't even make her own light, Dad said. She shone only from reflected light.”

— Jeannette Walls

“Dad said High Lonesome, as the area was known, wasn't a place for the soft of head or the weak of heart, and he…

— Jeannette Walls

“Dad was on the porch, pacing back and forth in that uneven stride he had on account of having a gimp leg. When he…

— Jeannette Walls

“Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten,” Dad said, “you’ll still have your stars.”

— Jeannette Walls

There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.

— Martial

Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian business man

— Henry Louis Mencken

“The projects are hideous, of course, there being a law, apparently respected throughout the world, that popular housing shall be as cheerless as a…

— James Baldwin

The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most…

— H. P. Blavatsky

Can I just say here how much I hate the word 'pamper'? While pretending to celebrate and indulge women, it actually implies that their…

— Julie Burchill