Scared

Famous quotes containing the word scared:

“Some nights—some nights are darker. Some are almost black, Rachel. Like tonight. It seems so dark. And I’m scared. I’m scared of being alone.”
—Pat Fielder, and Paul Landres. Jennie (Virginia Vincent)

“If a man was tossed out of a window when an infant, and so made a cripple for life, or scared out of his wits by the Indians, it is regretted chiefly because he was thus incapacitated for—business! I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The fellow parent you are scared to call is as appalled by the clique’s plans as you are. . . . The other parent is as happy to hear from you as you would be to hear from him.”
—Fred G. Gosman (20th century)