“We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.”
Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game
Variant: We’re the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, but we eat the little bastards alive.
Source: Ender's Game
Source: When Beauty Tamed the Beast
“We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.”
Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game
Variant: We’re the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, but we eat the little bastards alive.
Source: Ender's Game
Sören Kierkegaard book Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses
Søren Kierkegaard, Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses, Hong p. 37
1840s, Upbuilding Discourses (1843-1844)
“I no longer require
your stone gods, your ruins with legible inscriptions.”
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer
"Archeology"
Poems New and Collected (1998), The People on the Bridge (1986)
Context: Millennia have passed
since you first called me archaeology.
I no longer require
your stone gods, your ruins with legible inscriptions.
Show me your whatever
and I'll tell you who you were.
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1900–2002) Queen consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II
As quoted by Michael Parker in Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography (2009)<!-- Shawcross -->
Doug Stanhope (1967) American stand-up comedian, actor, and author
When asked, "What would constitute 'complete happiness' to Doug Stanhope (you)?" Doug Stanhope interview http://markprindle.com/stanhope-i.htm, MarkPrindle.com, 2007 <br class="br">Miscellaneous
Mary Harris Jones (1837–1930) Irish-born American labor and community organizer
Source: Autobiography of Mother Jones, p. 125 http://books.google.com/books?id=lFFfyG6DPXMC&pg=PA125