Etta Baker Quotes & Sayings

After the woman left, Gran, staring out back at the Zebra Forest, said to me, 'I'm a liar, I'll admit. But I pride myself on being a really good liar. That's part of my educational philosophy, too, Annie B. Mark that down. Lesson one: If you're going to do something, make sure to do it with excellence. — Adina Rishe Gewirtz

I feel it right down in my stomach when I'm in touch with something. I don't know what it is. — Dan Fogelberg

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities. — Arnold Bennett

Podkolyosin asked tragically, Why are you keeping quiet, like the League of Nations? — Ilya Ilf

The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets. You're only here now; you're only alive in this moment. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

In every country except - industrial country except the United States, the government uses its massive purchasing power to negotiate drug prices. That's one of the reasons prices are so much higher in the United States than in other countries. — Noam Chomsky

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places. — Lawrence Welk

I never thought the touch of another person could make the nerves jangle and dance beneath my skin. It was like I had slept the last few months away and now, suddently, I was waking up. — Shannon Delaney

The challenge, whenever you create anything, is to persevere and push away the negative voices. And the more you accomplish, the louder they get. The key is to shut them off and trust in your heart where you're going. — Anne Bancroft