Erskineville 1788 Quotes & Sayings

I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles. — Jean Reno

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

He folded back the hem of her housedress. Peeled the wet underpants from her skin and moved them down over her pale knees and her small feet and then dropped them on the floor. He could hear the voices of the children playing in the tree outside. He gently pushed her thighs apart and saw immediately that the baby had already begun to crown. Her skin was paler than his wife's was, even in midwinter. He gave her his hand to get her through the next contraction, keeping his arm steady as she squeezed. He spread the fingers of the other over her taut belly. Mr. Persichetti wore a silver Saint Christopher's medal around his neck and kept a Sacred Heart scapular in his pocket, but when Mary Keane asked him, catching her breath, "Who's the patron saint of women in labor?" he shrugged. He told her he only knew Saint Dymphna was the patron of the insane. He'd had the — Alice McDermott

The First Rule of Parenting states that you never wake a peacefully sleeping child. — David Mitchell

Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant. — Caecilius Statius

The world in the past has been ruled by force, and man has dominated over woman by reason of his more forceful and aggressive qualities both of body and mind. But the balance is already shifting - force is losing its weight and mental alertness, intuition, and the spiritual qualities of love and service, in which woman is strong, are gaining ascendancy. Hence the new age will be an age less masculine, and more permeated with the feminine ideals - or, to speak more exactly, will be an age in which the masculine and feminine elements of civilization will be more evenly balanced. — Abdu'l- Baha

Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me. — Alexandra Stoddard

What feminism means for me is simply that women, like men, are complete human beings with limitless possibilities. — Fahmida Riaz

Americans are cultured from their earliest years to be either one-sided douloi or one-sided banausoi, i.e. either they cannot think abstractively/conceptually/orchestrally or else they can only think abstractively. Thinking in a truly rational dialectic between intuition and intellect is just beyond the reach of our nation of emotionalist helots. What prevails among us truly has to be called not thinking but "thinking," a pathetic surrogate for actual thinking for the benefit of existentially or modally crippled mentalities. — Kenny Smith

Every word that [Jesus] spoke was historically true. Every word that He spoke was scientifically true. Every word that He spoke was ethically true. There were no loopholes in the moral conceptions
and statements of Jesus Christ. His ethical vision was wholly correct, correct in the age in which He lived and correct in every age that has followed it. — Billy Graham

I know politics; I know the media. — Valerie Trierweiler

Business cannot succeed in a world that is failing. — Don Tapscott

But just because you can never reach it, doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for. — Norton Juster

I think coaches sometimes foul their own players out of game by benching them too long when in foul trouble — Jeff Van Gundy

An ambitious and beautifully produced fever dream. Don't wake me up, I want to stay in. — Jonathan Hickman