Born Quote by John Updike Download Open image “If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.” — John Updike ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Born Burned Right time Time
I think if I had lived back in Salem, I would have been burned at the stake — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
There was a part of her she hadn’t yet allowed to be born because it was too beautiful for this place — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“If she is innocent! Why do you never wonder if Parris be innocent, or Abigail? Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem. — Janet Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Another reason I’m intrigued with the hanged of Salem, especially the women, is that a number of them aroused suspicion in the first place… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
And she would not hold back his limbs when his heart was gone to the woods, for it is ever the way of witches… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
“By the Middles Ages it was a sin to have sex with a child. If an adult were guilty of such a sin, one… — Patrick J. Carnes Copy Share Image
“Something terrible happened in Salem in 1692 . . . but it isn't what you think!” — Suzy Witten Copy Share Image
Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friends call it. — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes absorbed in images that tug… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Her hair had been going gray as long as he could remember; she bundled it behind in a bun held with hairpins that he… — John Updike Copy Share Image
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings. — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and if it… — Jon Connor Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Must I go bound while you go free Must I love a manwho doesn't love me Must I be born with so little art… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way. — Manny Pacquiao Copy Share Image
For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies. — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
