Basterma Quotes & Sayings

It took two days, and God kens well that I recall every second of those days - yet it seems that I lost her between one heartbeat and the next. And I - I keep lookin' for her there, in that space between. — Diana Gabaldon

I got an early education from television. — Debra Wilson

I may not have succeeded in halting the war, but I did secure the right of parliament to decide on war. — Robin Cook

The fall of the Berlin Wall really demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a bad system, and what subsequently happened in the Soviet Union, that that system was a failure. — Milton Friedman

You never see a child die from education on TV. But make no mistake about it: children die from lack of education all the time. Children without an education are more likely to grow up to have HIV/AIDS. They're more likely to die in infancy or before the age of five. — Gene Sperling

Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do. — Aristotle.

I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon. — Kate Christensen