Cathy Engelbert Quotes & Sayings

But I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the reader ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe. — Madeleine L'Engle

I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar. — Kaki King

By fetishizing youth and virginity, we're supporting a disturbing message: that really sexy women aren't women at all- they're girls. — Jessica Valenti

You're born with intelligence, but not with ethics. — Massad Ayoob

I don't want to sound like I'm on dope, but that hour is a high; it's as good as you can feel. A wonderful, wonderful happiness, and great power. — Phyllis Diller

Your job as a parent is not to make your child's way smooth, but rather to help her develop inner resources so she can cope. — Ellyn Satter

I didn't know what to say to that. Did he feel bad because he'd gotten caught? Or did he feel bad because he'd learned his lesson the hard way? Relationships were not always black and white, cut and dry. There is always so much history, so much emotional impact on a life that makes it so hard, to just walk away when someone hurts you. — Courtney Giardina

Why, from the very windows, even in the dusk, you see a swelling run through the street, an aspiration, as with arms outstretched, eyes desiring, mouths agape. And then we peaceably subside. For if the exaltation lasted we should be blown like foam into the air. The stars would shine through us. We should go down the gale in salt drops- as sometimes happens. For the impetuous spirits will have none of this cradling. Never any swaying or aimlessly lolling for them. Never any making believe, or lying cosily, or genially supposing that one is much like another, fire warm, wine pleasant, extravagance a sin. — Virginia Woolf

At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know? — Merle Haggard

Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy and fall down and worship it! — Mark Twain

My family is out of the ordinary in our physical lifestyle and the day-to-day things that we deal with, but my approach to them is pretty rational and sound. And I'm the quiet one! It's very different from my performing life. — Dee Snider

Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place. — Brigham Young

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. — Mikhail Gorbachev

But if we keep denying that there are problems with some male immigrants, then we will just drive the people into the arms of the right-wing populists. Without the ignorance or the trivialization on the part of all the political parties, there would be no Pegida or Alternative for Germany. — Alice Schwarzer