Bromfield Pen Quotes & Sayings

What is it but a map of busy life,
Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns? — William Cowper

If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on. — Myrtle Reed

But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?"
"Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag. — Haruki Murakami

Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature. Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved in nature. — Philip Emeagwali

Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program. — Richard Dawkins

I feel as though that was someone else playing. I was possessed! — Ringo Starr

There are 1,198,500,000 people alive now in China.
To get a feel for what that means, simply take yourself - in all your singularity, importance, complexity, and love - and multiply by 1,198,500,000.
See? Nothing to it. — Annie Dillard

I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into. — John Oliver

I had survived the work gangs in the ghetto. Baked bread under cover of night. Hidden in a pigeon coop. Had a midnight bar mitzvah in the basement of an abandoned building. I had watched my parents be taken away to their deaths, had avoided Amon Goeth and his dogs, had survived the salt mines of Wieliczka and the sick games of Trzebinia. I had done so much to live, and now, here, the Nazis were going to take all that away with their furnace!
I started to cry, the first tears I had shed since Moshe died. Why had I worked so hard to survive if it was always going to end like this? If I had known, I wouldn't have bothered. I would have let them kill me back in the ghetto. It would have been easier that way. All that I had done was for nothing. — Alan Gratz

A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women. — Valentina Tereshkova