Anthropologie Catalog Quotes & Sayings

Usually at least once in a person's childhood we lose an object that at the time is invaluable and irreplaceable to us, although it is worthless to others. Many people remember that lost article for the rest of their lives. Whether it was a lucky pocketknife, a transparent plastic bracelet given to you by your father, a toy you had longed for and never expected to receive, but there it was under the tree on Christmas ... it makes no difference what it was. If we describe it to others and explain why it was so important, even those who love us smile indulgently because to them it sounds like a trivial thing to lose. Kid stuff. But it is not. Those who forget about this object have lost a valuable, perhaps even crucial memory. Becuase something central to our younger self resided in that thing. When we lost it, for whatever reason, a part of us shifted permanently. — Jonathan Carroll

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth. — Paul Johnson

You don't value families if you force them to take up a collection to buy body armor for a son or daughter in the service. — John F. Kerry

For each man there awaits ... a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe. — Louis Aragon

I always had a running commentary in my head that was extremely funny and off-center, but I never said it to anyone. — Elayne Boosler

Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. — James Russell Lowell

It's the sound of my breathing that gets me, pouring down into my lungs and then tripping back up my throat. — Markus Zusak

The source of genius is imagination alone. — Eugene Delacroix

I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me. — Mother Teresa

It didn't matter. I was young and we were together. — Justin Go

You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention. — Buzz Aldrin

I have just as much woman in me as I have man. It's just a matter of channeling the energy into which way you use it. — Grace Jones