Beckenham Quotes & Sayings

Your love for what you do and willingness to push yourself where others aren't prepared to go is what will make you great. — Laurence Shahlaei

Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point. — Emma Bonino

And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

The measure of your solitude is the measure of your capacity for communion. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

We turn on the TV and leave it on, allowing someone else to guide us, shape us, and destroy us. — Thich Nhat Hanh

My parents stayed together for forty years. But that was out of spite. — Woody Allen

For Mum, life was fundamentally hell. You went blind, you got raped, people forgot your birthday, Nixon got elected, your husband fled with a blonde from Beckenham, and then you got old, you couldn't walk and you died. — Hanif Kureishi

Sometimes it's a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent. — Lena Headey

The pain in her body came first, an intense surge of fire that raged like lava through her veins.
But it could not compare with what followed after.
A wail rose up from her depths. It left her as an inhuman cry.
Finally, she remembered everything. — Kelly Creagh

I hope that's not so simple that it gets ignored, because it's important. It's such an effective idea that it saves children's lives every day. All the Sternins did was find the mom with the healthy kids. And then they helped the others in the village notice what she was doing. They gave that mom a spotlight, encouraging her to keep it up and, more important, encouraging others to follow her lead. — Seth Godin