Cortaron Elena Quotes & Sayings

Though her head was aching too much for her to reason with herself, she could think of nice things - the Cumberland hills, her lambs, her Nannie, who had taught her this trick of detachment. "When you're sick or sorry, child" she had said, "think of other things as much as you are able. It's just practice, Start young and you'll get the trick of it." And most astonishingly, after a little while of going back to childhood and remembering Nannie in her blue print dress, with her white apron on and her sleeves rolled up, turning on the bath-water and humming a little song as she did it, she fell asleep. — Elizabeth Goudge

It is an illusion to think that [EU] states can hold on to their autonomy. — Hans Tietmeyer

When abstinence curricula contain information about sexual abuse or assault (though they often don't), the message is similar: The onus of preventing sexual assault is on girls, not on men. — Jessica Valenti

To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me. — Anchee Min

I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty. — David Batstone

No one had taught us what freedom means. We'd only ever learned how to die for freedom. — Svetlana Alexievich

There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude. — Jean De La Bruyere

Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe — Rick Bragg