Bergljot Webster Quotes & Sayings

Singing is my life, and I have to do it, or I'm going to go totally bananas. — Kathleen Hanna

Simple, consistent good habits lead to a life full of bountiful blessings. — Richard G. Scott

Using someone else's ruler to measure your self-worth will always leave you short. — Charles F. Glassman

I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems. — Bill Gates

There's a void inside most people.
It's been created by not being contented with who we are, not being happy with what we have, not being present and looking for something more, better, more exciting out there.
And we've always been trying to fill this void with something external. — Lidiya K.

The human body appreciates peace of mind. Things that are disturbing to us have a very bad effect upon our health. This shows that the whole structure of our health is such that it is suited to an atmosphere of human affection. — Dalai Lama XIV

No, its not, because you can see into the future if you have basic understanding of how people are likely to act. — John Green

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television. — Bob Greene

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling. — Robert M. Pirsig

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Wasn't it Pieter Stuyvesant who said that first boatload of Jews could stay in New Amsterdam only as long as they took care of their own and asked for nothing? So take care of ourselves we did. They always told us how lucky we were to grow up in the Orphaned Hebrews Home, schooling us in its illustrious history. Didn't we weather the blizzard of 1888, kept warm by our own stockpile of coal, fed from the ovens of our own bakery? And while children all over the city succumbed to cholera at the turn of the century, didn't we emerge unscathed, the city's water filtered before it reached our lips? After the Great War, people fell to influenza by the tens of thousands, but in the Home not a single child died. No matter how impressive, though, our Home was a kind of ghetto, the scrape of metal as the gates swung shut the same sound in Manhattan as in Venice. I — Kim Van Alkemade

Women are easy, state capitals are hard. — Homer

Within five years, he had learned English and become the greatest bodybuilder in the world. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed upon my return, I knew that a memory of my existence was alive somewhere in the world. — Ishmael Beah