Philippa Gregory quote: "I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the sweetness of his little lick of tawny hair on his forehead?"

The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled wit...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

A woman has to change her nature if she is to be a wife. She has to learn to curb her tongue, to sup...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest a...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

I believe in me, in my view of the world. I believe in my responsibility for my own destiny, guilt f...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Daniel, I did not knowwhat I wanted when I was agirl. And then I was a fool in every sense of the wo...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?
PHILIPPA GREGORY

I had meant my promise to George. I had said that I was, before anything else, a Boleyn and a Howard...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enem...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – w...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and Englis...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Jane," I said quietly.
She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer.
"Yes, Mary? F...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight
PHILIPPA GREGORY

I would play ball with Catherine, and hide and seek: Not a very challenging game in an open meadow, ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. Tha...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

When they launch snakes you'll have your namesake.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Good Evening , Sir John. I hope that you will accept a little gift from me.'
I should be honore...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

We're going' Anne said firmly.
So soon?' Percy pleaded. 'But stars come out at night.'
Th...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Some women attract desire. Others do not.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great d...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

I woke at dawn every morning to his touch, the delight of his warmth and the heady smell of his skin...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Tell my daughter Elizabeth -- no! Tell all my daughters, everywhere, in all the ages yet to come. Te...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

I am too dark in my heart tonight.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

For most of my life i have been adored by fools and hated by people of good sense, and they all make...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all da...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. M...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

All that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Good god what men can do to their brains when their cocks are hard.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

You have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes y...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though so...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

If I could change one thing about myself I'd be less highly strung. I find my sensibility quite ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Dželat mi prilazi i kaže: "Spustite glavu na panj i raširite ruke kad budete spremni, gospo."
PHILIPPA GREGORY

I feel very strongly that history has mostly been written by men, and even when it is not prejudiced...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

the greater the noise the less the deeds. And grand announcements do not mean great doings. Let
PHILIPPA GREGORY

on what he wants to say. I step back. So it is just as his wife fears, and she was
PHILIPPA GREGORY

She can be pious, she can be learned, she can be witty and wise and beautiful, but if she is married...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might a...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Uma palavra feita sobre coação não tem valor- vou ser livre.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Every woman should marry for her own advantage since her husband will represent her, as visible as h...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

People always make up stories about princesses. It comes to us with the crown. We have to carry it a...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Никой не трябва да ме съжалява. Могат да ме обичат, или �...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Do you really think that God in his heaven with all the angels, there from the beginning of time and...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Some of us are born to a solitary life.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they shou...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Men die in battle; women die in childbirth.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

I turn around from the window and for the first time I see him... It is Richard, smiling at my surpr...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Being a stepmother has worked out very well for me. I love my stepchildren very much.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

I think that all of them must have lost their minds and have forgotten everything we were to each ot...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

For a moment we glared at each other, stubborn as cats on the stable wall, full of mutual resentment...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

I could not do it. I would not do it. I sat back on my heels with the book in my hand with the light...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

To stop us reading forbidden books they will have to burn every manuscript. But to stop us thinking ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Because all books are forbidden when a country turns to terror. The scaffolds on the corners, the li...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

It might be that marriage was not the death of a woman and the end of her true self, but the unfoldi...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

If I burned them, I became as one of those who think that ideas are dangerous and should be destroye...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

might be that marriage was not the death of a woman and the end of her true self, but the unfolding ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

I prayed in silence that perhaps even now, the queen might have a son and might know joy like this, ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

One should never offend more men than one can persuade,
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Ah, Hannah, you have never longed to live as I long to live if you do not know that another day is t...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Uzela sam knjige, misleći da ću iz njih trgati po nekoliko stranica, spaljivati ih dio po dio. Prv...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

lechery?" he asked with a wink, guessing from the hour that I had been with some palace kitchen-maid...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

I felt his hardness and I suddenly understood-an older girl would have understood long before-that t...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Look, you can't fight everyone... You have to choose where you belong and rest there.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Ideas are more dangerous than an unsheathed sword in this world, half of them are forbidden, the oth...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Sometimes we win; sometimes we lose. The main thing is that we always, we always go on.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

I have seen statues that would look stodgy beside her, I have seen painted Madonnas whose features w...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be eithe...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do a...
PHILIPPA BOYENS

Nothing stands still, except in our memory.
PHILIPPA PEARCE

You -have- to love your monster.
PHILIPPA DOWDING

As a screenwriter, you have to let go, and you have to hand your baby over and let it go off into th...
PHILIPPA BOYENS

Pyjamas are endless...
PHILIPPA GOODWIN

Since estrogen is known to be involved in the development and progression of human breast cancer, an...
DR PHILIPPA DARBRE

It is reasonable to question whether this aluminum could then influence breast cancer.
DR PHILIPPA DARBRE

Each of these agents on their own may not have a powerful effect, but we need to see what happens wh...
DR PHILIPPA DARBRE

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship b...
DICK GREGORY

Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an...
LADY GREGORY

If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd h...
DICK GREGORY

Star Trek's insight lay in the promise of going to the stars together, with well-defined stereot...
GREGORY BENFORD

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and...
LADY GREGORY

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as b...
LADY GREGORY

There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
LADY GREGORY

From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after tim...
LADY GREGORY

I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tong...
LADY GREGORY

The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
LADY GREGORY

It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every...
LADY GREGORY

I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
LADY GREGORY

The time the moon is going back, the blood that is in a person does be weakening, but when the moon ...
LADY GREGORY

It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the M...
LADY GREGORY

What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
LADY GREGORY

It was on the first day of Beltaine, that is called now May Day, the Tuatha de Danaan came, and it w...
LADY GREGORY

It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.
LADY GREGORY

It takes madness to find out madness.
LADY GREGORY

Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good pla...
LADY GREGORY

Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on ear...
LADY GREGORY

What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may b...
LADY GREGORY

To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of u...
LADY GREGORY

My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through, to be two mon...
LADY GREGORY

Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, ...
GREGORY HARRISON

As fandom grew more variegated, genzines reflected a broadening of interests, carrying personal colu...
GREGORY BENFORD

We should be happy. We should be enjoying that there is all this bounty. Somebody can take an iPod a...
GREGORY STOCK

In coastal waters rich in runoff, plankton can swarm densely, a million in a drop of water. They col...
GREGORY BENFORD

People who drink four or more cups of coffee a day - it doesn't matter whether it is caffeinated...
GREGORY STOCK

So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but arou...
GREGORY HARRISON

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it ...
DICK GREGORY

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.
GREGORY NUNN

Reared in rural southern Alabama, we enjoyed an idyllic Huck Finn boyhood. But education there was c...
GREGORY BENFORD

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.
GREGORY NUNN

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
GREGORY NUNN

A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.
GREGORY NUNN

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.
GREGORY NUNN

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
GREGORY NUNN

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
GREGORY I

Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I...
GREGORY CORSO

If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who sho...
GREGORY NUNN

A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.
GREGORY NUNN

Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.
GREGORY NUNN

Grief, and an estate, is joy understood,
GREGORY NUNN

Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bil...
DICK GREGORY

The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It sa...
GREGORY NUNN

And we love to dance -- especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you...
DICK GREGORY

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
DICK GREGORY

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very mi...
LADY GREGORY

Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the ...
GREGORY CLARK

I wouldn't mind paying taxes -- if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
DICK GREGORY

But no matter which path we take, Nessa, there will always be trying times. Faith is believing that ...
KRISTIANA GREGORY

[Nessa] didn’t know how to disagree with a preacher, or if she was even allowed to, so she merely ...
KRISTIANA GREGORY

Princess," he said, spreading his arms in a shrug, "how does such a little thing like you get such a...
KRISTIANA GREGORY

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty
GREGORY I

There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that...
GREGORY PECK

As far as protecting yourself against Alzheimer's disease, well, it turns out that fish oil has ...
GREGORY PETSKO

We hope we can slow or possibly reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer's.
GREGORY BENFORD

The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyra...
LADY GREGORY

I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Cool...
LADY GREGORY

There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing ...
LADY GREGORY

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that Afric...
DICK GREGORY

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.
GREGORY PECK

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better...
LADY GREGORY

To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to ...
GREGORY BATESON

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after d...
DICK GREGORY

Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the inte...
GREGORY BENFORD

People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you...
DICK GREGORY

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?
GREGORY PECK

You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who k...
DICK GREGORY

There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
DICK GREGORY

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.
GREGORY PECK

Enzymes - plainly the most important biotechnology of our era - already permeate many industrial pro...
GREGORY BENFORD

Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its wor...
LADY GREGORY

Now here's what I'm saying: I've always believed that every other month we hear about co...
DICK GREGORY

When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

The wall read:
ELPHIE LIVES
OZMA LIVES
THE WIZARD LIVES
and then
EVERYONE L...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

I'll compliment on the spot. I want a clean, neat drugstore. I'll check the restrooms and cl...
GREGORY WASSON

Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection i...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

I can not be the ideal person you are searching for if i am not the ideal person i am searching for.
GREGORY SAYEGH

There is a pent-up demand from people who want to clone their dead children.
GREGORY STOCK

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
GREGORY NUNN

I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in...
GREGORY PECK

There is no doubt that the princess did become a queen---not only on the screen. One of the most lov...
GREGORY PECK

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the ...
DICK GREGORY

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down ...
DICK GREGORY

To pursue wisdom is to live in such a way that one is prepared to face death when it comes. (247)
GREGORY BASSHAM

Le génie de l'oeuvre de Rowling réside non seulement dans son art de raconter des histoires, mais ...
BASSHAM GREGORY

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.
GREGORY MAGUIRE

The simplest way to remove carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, is to grow plants - preferably t...
GREGORY BENFORD

Like the ocean, land plants hold about three times as much carbon as the atmosphere. While oceans ta...
GREGORY BENFORD

We're all going to eventually, even in the developed world, going to have to lose everything tha...
GREGORY STOCK

It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I ...
LADY GREGORY

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a g...
DICK GREGORY

While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone over...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very...
LADY GREGORY

The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through th...
GREGORY CORSO

I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding o...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena ill...
GREGORY BATESON

I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the sweetness of his little lick of tawny hair on his forehead?

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I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the sweetness of his little lick of tawny hair on his forehead?

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