Gebackener Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes life turns out hard, Isabel. Sometimes it just bites right through you. And sometimes, just when you think it's done its worst, it comes back and takes another chunk. — M.L. Stedman

Friendship is such a powerful healer and source of support. — Bonnie St. John

I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either! — Lewis Carroll

I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years. — Neil Peart

One thing I did learn early on was not to put all my trust in magic. If it can be done without magic, it's better done without magic. — Garth Nix

A collision at sea can ruin your entire day. — Thucydides

I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring. — Helen Keller

I am an enemy of the State. But isn't everyone? — Edward Abbey

If a woman can by careful selection of a father, and nourishment of herself produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it. Whether she be financed in the undertaking by herself, or by the father, of by a speculative capitalist, or by a new department of , say, the Royal Dublin Society, or (as at present) by the War Office maintaining her 'on the strength' and authority under a by-law directing that women may under certain circumstances have a year's leave of absence on full salary, or by the central government, does not matter provided the results be satisfactory. — George Bernard Shaw

Right mothering meets the
child's need.

Focusing on what the child should
not be draws resistant energy. Pointing
out what the child should be feeds
self-hatred and struggle. — Vimala McClure

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well. — Amy Winehouse

It was easy to see that he was clever and well read, but he was also boring. — Hanif Kureishi