Quotes About Brats

William O'Neill, another historian, observed wryly that many universities prior to the rise of student unrest had at least required hard work and discipline—training for life in the real world. In some of the post-protest universities, he lamented, "The Protestant ethic gave way to the pleasure principle in college but not in life."22 Reactions such as these reflected a widespread sense among Americans that the students were spoiled brats.23

What was she doing working in a big museum, anyway, when she really should be tucked away in some semidetached house in the suburbs with a pack of squalling brats? Who was this husband she was allegedly so loyal to? Maybe the problem was she was rogering someone on the side already. Yes, that was probably it

I don't like the idea of your being a governess at the beck and call of tyrannical mother's and their tiresome brats.

AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.

I will deny I ever said this, of course, but the gods need heroes. They always have. Otherwise we would not keep you annoying little brats around. I feel so wanted. Thanks.

Are there children out there? Um, yes sir, they're all children. Run a few down. Sir? Drive over a few of the little brats. That'll scare 'em off.

I'm a Wisconsin kid, so I like brats and burgers and stuff like that. Cheese curds.

Mistress! What would I get out of that except a passel of brats? -Scarlett O'Hara

I have a Kenwood charcoal grill. In our house, if anybody is cooking, it's me. I love making burgers. I love making pork tenderloin. Lamb chops I do on the grill a lot. But you just can't beat brats.

That was it. In Annie's view all the people in the world were divided into three groups: brats, poor poor things... and Annie.

Forest Hills was a middle-class neighborhood filled with snobby rich people and their screaming brats.

There's a certain mentality that military brats have, you know? Especially if you're a male, and your father's the one in the forces.

Get your filthy hands off the puzzle, you little brats!

Mighty cultures never - are almost never conquered. They crumble from within. And frankly, I think that a lot of Americans are acting like spoiled brats because everything isn't working out perfectly every time.

In the morning, when he entered my room, I grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a cupid like that child.

the nation's transition from a culture molded by sacrifice and hard work to a bunch of cranky, unobliged brats.

Child actors are notorious for being brats.

Drat!" Dr. Orwell said. "He's unhypnotized! How in the world would a child know a complicated word like 'inordinate'?" "These brats know lots of words," Shirley said, in her ridiculously fake high voice. "They're book addicts. But we can still create an accident and win the fortune!

We brats bear the hurt of war. We insulate it and keep it warm. Our bodies and souls are receptacles of an unimaginable heartache. We have a way of looking out at the world from behind the walls of an emotional castle built to protect a lonely treasure.