Gamlemetten Quotes & Sayings

I took her hand in mine, not the way I used to hold hers as a child, but with our fingers woven together. And we strode through the archway of emperors and into the open
hand in hand, my mother and I. — Justina Chen

It is a good idea to become involved with sports and athletics. It makes you strong. You need to be strong to deal with this world and the powers and forces that block enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz

She was given to me to put things right
And I stacked all my accomplishments beside her
Still I seemed so obselete and small
I found God and all His devils inside her
In my bed she cast the blizzard out
A mock sun blazed upon her head
So completely filled with light she was
Her shadow fanged and hairy and mad
Our love-lines grew hopelessly tangled
And the bells from the chapel went jingle-jangle — Nick Cave

Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.' — E.L. Konigsburg

To imagine yourself inside another person ... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose. — Eudora Welty

I've learned to ask people, "You're doing very well so what are you doing? Let me tell other people." So what's made me who I am, my experience. — Bernie Siegel

A king with no place to lay his head. A king who came to serve, not to be served. — Reza Aslan

How easily we all vanish from the face of the earth. One moment, we live. The next, we are erased. — Kate Wrath

What's chivalrous about saying you've seen a rhinoceros? — Eugene Ionesco

I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then. — Umberto Eco