Beartown Backman Quotes & Sayings

A simple truth, repeated as often as it is ignored, is that if you tell a child it can do absolutely anything, or that it can't do anything at all, you will in all likelihood be proven right. — Fredrik Backman

I always tell people that a revolution is not an event, it's a process. It is a struggle. And it doesn't usually go smoothly. — Bassem Youssef

I have not yet learned to keep still. — Apollonius Of Tyana

We're either going to be dependent on dirty oil from the Gulf or dirty oil from Canada. — Hillary Clinton

The only true immortality lies in one's children.
[Letter to his friend, Richard Heuberger] — Johannes Brahms

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science. — Edward Sapir

He wanted to bring up his plan for a retreat, but something told him not to. "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" he opened instead. "Yes," Grant replied chewing on a cigar. "Lick 'em tomorrow, though."75 — Robert L. O'Connell

A young man left Beartown in silence and when he came home again it was too late for words. You can't look a gravestone in the eye and ask its forgiveness. — Fredrik Backman

Life is to complex to just run away. Love is to close to be grabbed. Never repeat the truest of lovely words. — Felisha Rush

To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error. — Janet Coleman

they don't want a modern Beartown, because they know that a modern Beartown won't want them. Ramona — Fredrik Backman

So she bowed her head and devoted herself to Beartown's real traditional sports: shame and silence. — Fredrik Backman

I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people. — Alexander Mackenzie

I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin. — J. D. Souther

Bitterness can be corrosive. It can rewrite your memories as if it were scrubbing a crime scene clean, until in the end you only remember what suits you of its causes. — Fredrik Backman

After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist. — Meghan Trainor

Bears shit in the woods, and everyone shits on Beartown — Fredrik Backman

While all the pomp and circumstance of war animated others, it only saddened me; and all of past reflection, all of future dread, made the whole grandeur of the martial scene, and all the delusive seduction of martial music, fill my eyes frequently with tears ... — Fanny Burney

We therefore need to know the gifts given us by God, so that we may use them, for by these we shall be saved. — Walter Hilton

You never want to get away from home as much as you do when you're fifteen years old. It's like her mom usually says when the cold and darkness have worn away at her patience and she's had three or four glasses of wine :"you can't live in this town,maya,you can only survive it. — Fredrik Backman