Grandberry Park Quotes & Sayings

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know whether you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children. — Oriah Dreamer

I'm a recovering politician. — Julian Castro

He had an extraordinarily casual air about him. I'd noticed that before, when he had tossed himself out the window. — Rinsai Rossetti

How happy I am that my heart can feel the simple, harmless bliss of the person who brings to his table a cabbage he has grown himself, not just the cabbage alone but all the good days, the beautiful morning he planted it, the lovely evenings he watered it, and as he had his joy in its advancing growth, he enjoys it all again in the one moment. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I don't want a simple life. I want an extraordinary continuous adventure. That's the problem. I just want more. I want it all & everything in-between. — Heather Dorff

I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years ago, and left with us unweakened, though substantially changed by the social and political events of the intervening period. — Robert Burchfield

Do you think people are born villains, or do they live long enough to fight for those they care for, those they love, before realizing what they become? — Eric Dulin

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering. — Margaret J. Wheatley

Roosevelt loved the subtleties of human relations ... He was sensitive to nuances in a way that Harry Truman never was and never would be. Truman, with his rural Missouri background, and partly too, because of the limits of his education, was inclined to see things in far simpler terms, as right or wrong, wise or foolish. He dealt little in abstractions. — David McCullough

Even if it happened in real life - and oftentimes, especially if it happened in real life - it might not work in fiction. — Rachel Kushner

Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks. — Caroline Rhea

How you eat tells your genes what type of body you want to have later. — Dharma Singh Khalsa

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio. — Ariel Rechtshaid