Gregerson Quotes & Sayings

When I get married, I want to be really married — Audrey Hepburn

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity. — John Lone

Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes. — George Herbert

When you tidy your space completely, you transform the scenery. The change is so profound that you feel as if you are living in a totally different world. — Marie Kondo

The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant. — Elizabeth Bowen

If you're the head of a business, there's a protocol that people have to follow. — Robin Wright

...the past/that has a place for us will know us by our scattered wake."
A History Play,Waterborne — Linda Gregerson

And the LORD said to Moses, See, I have made you like o God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your p prophet. 2 q You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of his land. — Anonymous

So much is metaphor, an inadequately material way to speak of immaterial things. — Ann Leckie

THE MANY FACES OF SURVIVAL
Sunday, August 10th at 2:00 PST
Dachau Liberator, medical whistle-blower, award winning writer, college professor and world renowned garlic farmer, Chester Aaron, talks about the hard choices he's had to make, why he made them, and how it's changed his life.
Mr. Aaron was recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, and received the Huntington Hartford Foundation fellowship which was chaired by Aldous Huxley and Tomas Mann. He also inspired Ralph Nader to expose the over-radiation of blacks in American hospitals.
Now Mr. Aaron is a world-renowned garlic farmer who spends his days writing about the liberation of Dachau. He is 86 years old and he has a thousand stories to tell. Although he has published over 17 books, he is still writing more and looks forward to publishing again soon. — Judy Gregerson

It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers. — Jupiter Hammon

When speechless, let body do the talk. — Toba Beta

When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person ... there can be no liberty. — Baron De Montesquieu

I live in Los Angeles and I like to do a lot of hiking. I live a very relaxed life. — Nathan Fillion

When she realizes that Nigel is having an affair, her first sentiment is satisfaction that she figured it out. Her second is that, despite all the palaver about betrayal, it doesn't feel so terrible.This is pleasing
it demonstrates a certain sophistication. She wonders if his fling might even serve her. In principle, she could leave him without compunction now, though she doesn't wish to. It also frees her from guilt about any infidelities she might wish to engage in. All in all, his affair might prove useful. — Tom Rachman

With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation, the nurturing richness of landscape, and the soul-wound wrought by casual defacement. Abbate has a superb capacity for distillation and a mastery of poetic line, and her diction is remarkably flexible, accommodating both the demotic and the lyrical. Her poems are as consistent in quality as they are varied in pacing, surface, and tone. A fine first book. — Linda Gregerson

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect — Leonardo Da Vinci

We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open. — David R. Brower