Groninger Library Quotes & Sayings

We both learn way more on our own than we do at school, and we're more interested in things we find for ourselves. — Michelle Falkoff

Memory is a hunting horn
Its tone dies out along the wind. — Guillaume Apollinaire

It's our memories that make us who we are. Without them, we're nothing. If that means we have to hurt sometimes, it's worth it. — Richard Paul Evans

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account. — Neville Chamberlain

Negative people are worse than negative occurrences. The argument is over in ten minutes - the person may hang around for years. — Jeffrey Gitomer

It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise. — Nancy Thayer

I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist. — Damian Woetzel

It was an experience I might have missed. Now I only fear I will not have time enough to fully enjoy the thought of it. — Marilynne Robinson

Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession. — John Donne

It is hard to put a price on some things. What is the value of having prevented nuclear weapons from getting into the hands of a dictator like Saddam Hussein - or of Gadhafi ? — Donald Rumsfeld

[Television viewing] is a one-way transaction that requires the taking in of particular sensory material in a particular way, no matter what the material might be. There is, indeed, no other experience in a child's life that permits quite so much intake while demanding so little outflow. — Marie Winn