Bernardus Winery Quotes & Sayings

Adults have been brainwashed into thinking that they can't really learn about computers without being taught, so it's more difficult for them to feel comfortable with a computer. Deep down, I think they're afraid of learning about computers. — Seymour Papert

Or maybe it's about the wonderful things that may happen if you break the ropes that are holding you. — Mary Oliver

She hoped Smoke was wrong about people being unknowable. She hoped that she could crack herself open like a nut and know herself, at least. Then she'd be able to start figuring out everybody else. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings. — Boris Pasternak

What is freedom when you're too beholden to act spontaneously — Hilary Thayer Hamann

What's wrong with leading the way? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot ... that did so much to raise living standards and improve conditions for workers worldwide. We were a leader in extending to women the right to vote. We were barely a nation when we set the bar for bravery and sacrifice by common soldiers in foreign wars. We grew up out of racism and misogyny and homophobia to become a mostly tolerant, successful multicultural society. We did these great things because we know we are in it together. It is our core value as Australians. — Geraldine Brooks

As the years go by, it's our relationships that will leave us the best memories to celebrate endlessly. — Wes Adamson

A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for. — Amit Ray

Live for the moments you can't put into words — Kid Rock

I didn't cry when I asked him what it felt like, suffering with whatever had befallen him, and he replaid, It's something that's been inside me for a long time. And you fight and fight and fight against it for so long, but then it just crashes over you and pulls you down — Sara Shepard

My favorite kind of book is a domestic drama that's grounded in reality yet slightly unhinged. — Maria Semple