Graaf Quotes & Sayings

Up until I was thirty years old I was your standard issue Christian- the kind christian schools and churches in our town pounded out year after year like spiritual Model-T's, mostly in one color-beige. We were covenant children, so we figured we came with a cradle-to-grave, salvational warrantee. — Clare De Graaf

More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work - thanks, I suppose, to their parents' lingering vinyl collections. — Peter Hammill

I was always taught to write the book you want to read. It's a philosophy I haven't wavered from since. — E.A. De Graaf

In Britain, the major public holiday used to be Guy Fawkes Day ... that was celebrated on November 5th with things like bonfires and fireworks ... I think that made Halloween seem preferable. The idea of having pumpkins and costumes and parties seemed much more appealing than burning down your neighborhood. — Lisa Morton

The goal of our lives should be nothing less that becoming so familiar with the "mind of Christ" that we could write Jesus' speeches. — Clare De Graaf

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. - G. K. CHESTERTON — Clare De Graaf

[The Rule:] Just do the next thing you're reasonably certain Jesus wants you to do. — Clare De Graaf

Design in black and white. Add color for emphasis, when your design is complete. — Diane Wilson

The humanist philosopher who bends over his brothers like an elder brother who is conscious of his responsibilities; the humanist who loves men as they are, the one who loves them as they ought to be, the one who wants to save them with their consent, and the one who will save them in spite of themselves, the one who wants to create myths, and the one who is satisfied with the old myths, the one who loves man for his death, the one who loves man for his life, the happy humanist who always knows what to say to make people laugh, the gloomy humanist whom you usually meet at wakes. They all hate one another : as individuals, of course, not as men. — Jean-Paul Sartre

It was like waiting for the sunrise and a chicken to hatch - if the sun marked the end of the world and the chicken was an all-devouring demon.
- THE BOOK OF BRIN — Michael J. Sullivan

We're going to achieve our goal. We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL. — Barack Obama

We can deny reality, but we can't deny the consequences of denying reality. — Richard Paul Evans

[The 10-Second Rule's] power is in its simplicity, and yet it gets straight to the heart of what it means to actually follow Jesus. — Clare De Graaf

Women have been driven mad, "gaslighted," for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience. The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have a primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each others' sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.
Women have often felt insane when cleaving to the truth of our experience. Our future depends on the sanity of each of us, and we have a profound stake, beyond the personal, in the project of describing our reality as candidly and fully as we can to each other. — Adrienne Rich

We have been ruled by men who live by illusions ... the illusion that there is some other way of creating wealth than hard work and satisfying your customers. — Margaret Thatcher

You don't have to be super clean to be a super star — Ice Cube

I was too concerned with my own dignity. Grovelling and compliments were the order of the day. I made the mistake of trying to teach them their business. — Debbie Horsfield

As I stood behind you, I sensed that God was telling me to pay for your groceries, so I did. Simple as that. — Clare De Graaf

But he had gained a perspective of thought in which every extreme was seen as a half-truth, — Will Durant

Brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine! — Nick Cave

Life is nor about 'Having', it's about 'Being'. — Ton De Graaf

There's always a Van der Graaf audience that wants to hear the band's sound. And totally fair enough. Why not? It's a band. You like the band, you like the band. — Peter Hammill