Famous Buber Quotes & Sayings

Dreams are the wanderings of the spirit though all nine heavens and all nine earths. — Lu Yen-hsun

God-forsaken is beautiful, too. — Richard Brautigan

Music is one of the most efficient mood elevators we have. People in nursing homes, whether ambulatory or even bedridden, whether lucid or not, would be provided with great pleasure by your playing. Maybe they could even dream, return to the best times in their lives, when they were loved. — Nancy Thayer

If you only live to be 100 than I want to live to be 100 minus one day so I never have to live without you...from whinnie the pooh — Alex Milne

You been taking care of yourself a long time, Foxy. You must be fucking hungry for it. I bet you're drenched right now. — Sherilee Gray

There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools. — Ruben Hinojosa

Tower of London, where they used to chop off your head if the king didn't like you. — Lauren Tarshis

My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read - she read words rather than syllables. And as a result of that, when I entered school, it took me a long time to learn how to write. — Vik Muniz

Aim for the stars, and afterward, pass them. — Matshona Dhliwayo

As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene ... No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life. Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrase-mongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot.
(Quote taken from "What Life Means to Einstein," The Saturday Evening Post, October 26, 1929.) — Albert Einstein

Marriage is a lot of things-an alliance, a sacrament, a comedy, or a mistake; but it is definitely not a partnership because that implies equal gain. And every right-thinking woman knows the profit in matrimony is by all odds hers. — Phyllis McGinley

I like working in all different mediums so I'm truly lucky to be able to flip back and forth. — Matt Squire

I first came across the script for 'Macbeth' between the ages of 11 and 12; it was the first book that shook my life. Because I did not yet understand that I could simply purchase it in a bookstore, I copied much of it by hand and took it home. My childhood imagination pushed me to feel like a co-author of the play. — Ismail Kadare

You need to understand that what you think you want isn't always what's best for you and others. You need to open your heart to learn what you want before you use this magic, otherwise if you don't really know what you want and you get what you think you want, you're going to end up getting what you don't want." Huh? — James R. Doty

Every year I resolve to be a little less the me I know and leave a little room for the me I could be. Every year I make a note not to feel left behind by my friends and family who have managed to change far more than I. — Wendy Wasserstein