Geerteke Van Quotes & Sayings

We had just heard that story recounted so many times over the years that it was easy to take the details and fold them into our own sparse memories. — Sarah Dessen

Conversely, we humans are born premature and highly dependent newborns whose brains are shaped through years of interactions with our caretakers and the environment. — Louis Cozolino

How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than the mere mind or intellect is: the kinship you celebrate in these personalities is your own dismembered Orpheus stumbling across another fine organ to rejoin to itself. I put it this way: aristic psyche loves itself enough to chasten itself, to put itself through boot camp for the sake of being competent for life, alive to life. — Kenny Smith

I'm just a woman with a penis! she would say, her voice rising. — John Irving

Our nation must come together to unite. — George W. Bush

And I watered it in fears,
Night and morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles. — William Blake

I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth. — River Phoenix

As long as your abuser has you scared, you will stay in the cycle of abuse. Thinking of solutions helps you to escape. — Roseanne Barr

Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture? — Beatrix Farrand

We've seen many heroes from Jamaica, you know, and to be put in that class or to be looked upon on that level is overwhelming. It's pretty big shoes to fill, you know. I'm a size eight, but I'll try my best. — OMI

I found it inspiring that a sky could actually snow this much. — Haruki Murakami

There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.
[Lat., Nihil est quod credere de se
Non possit, quum laudatur dis aequa potestas.] — Juvenal

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. — Karl Kraus