Blokes Groningen Quotes & Sayings

This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country. — Eli Wallach

And for a long while they stood side by side without speaking, each seeing the other in every line of the landscape. — Edith Wharton

Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Some women are born mothers, some women become mothers, and some have motherhood thrust upon them. I struggled against it all my life, but I think the truth is I was probably born to it. I don't do badly, I don't do well, I just do it. — Fay Weldon

To anyone who has full awareness of our "exile" from God, our alienation from this inmost self, and our blind wandering in the "region of unlikeness," this claim can hardly seem believable. Yet it is nothing else but the message of Christ calling us to awake from sleep, to return from exile, and find our true selves within ourselves, in that inner sanctuary which is His temple and His heaven, and (at the end of the prodigal's homecoming journey) the "Father's House. — Thomas Merton

It was a symbol of what Ruskin had done for Proust, and what all books might do for their readers, namely bring back to life, from the deadness caused by habit and inattention, valuable yet neglected aspects of experience. — Alain De Botton