Colmery Quotes & Sayings

When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time. — Jane Birkin

Don't forget the little people, even when you want to. — Jesse Petersen

Young men pray for different things, of course, but some young men pray to honor the goodness of the men who raised them, — Mohsin Hamid

Be critical. Women have the right to say: This is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades. — Tillie Olsen

As painters ... we must always remember that our precious poetic visions and spiritual insights will remain forever locked within us until we can boil them down to a complex arrangement of a few hundred or possibly even thousands of brushstrokes ... — Richard Schmid

Naturally, obviously, nudity is a part of life. — Theo James

There, in the depths of sleep, is the communion of the living and the dead. — Gennadiy Aygi

When your time is up, what are your last thoughts going to be?' I asked. 'All of your miserable memories? When you were lonely or scared or heartbroken? The things that almost kill you don't make you stronger. If anything, they make you bitter and closed off and broken.
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I think what you have to live for makes you stronger — Katie Kacvinsky

It came on slowly, like the tide filling up the entire shore before you even realize it's coming in. — Jennifer Shaw Wolf

The journey will be difficult. The road will be long. I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people. — Barack Obama