Derksen Quotes & Sayings

Having no national system of catastrophic health insurance, we have, through the courts, managed to patch together pieces of a not very satisfactory one. — Andrew Tobias

I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got a bit of Aunt Mary's laundry and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on the fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. It's a generous medium, photography. — Lee Friedlander

I may have absolutely no control over what happens to us, but we can control how we respond. If we choose the right attitude, we can rise above whatever challenges we face. — Nick Vujicic

One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought we did — Bertrand Russell

Some are wandering into forbidden paths because they are seeking popularity with their peers, even to the extent of doing things they know are wrong. They cannot stand criticism or ridicule and will not take a firm stand against wrongdoing. — Nathan Eldon Tanner

The humming of my parents' voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of security, had now become a source of anxiety and panic. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers? — John Milton

There have been times that I've wept as I've gone from city to city and I've seen how far people have wandered from God. — Billy Graham

Death is water's close companion. The two cannot be separated, and neither can be separated from us, for they are what we are ultimately made of: the versatility of water, and the closeness of death. Water has no beginning and no end, but death has both. Death is both. Sometimes death travels hidden in water, and sometimes water will chase death away, but they go together always, in the world and in us. — Emmi Itaranta

I had to let go of my need to know everything before I moved ahead; I had to learn to function in the mystery. — Wilma Derksen

You worked every day to earn what's on the table, literally. It was a week-to-week thing. And I wouldn't change it. I would not change it for anything. — Scott Brooks

You're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater. — Joss Whedon

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents. — C. G. Jung

Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Cities are natural, that's why they're everywhere. It's not like there's only one city, and everybody's like 'What the f**k is this?' No, cities are all over the place. They're natural. You know what's not natural? You, in the middle of the mountains, in the middle of the winter. — Joe Rogan

You got to take the crookeds with the straights. That's what Papa used to say. — August Wilson