Gruschow Quotes & Sayings

I just can't stand to look plain, 'cause that don't fit my personality. I may be a very artificial-looking person, but the good news is, I'm very real on the inside. — Dolly Parton

The only way to neutralize the effect of public journals is to multiply them indefinitely. — Alexis De Tocqueville

My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996. — Tea Obreht

In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing. — Esther Hicks

Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture on the wall, or as if the author expected that the dead would be his readers, and wished to detail to them their own experience. — Henry David Thoreau

All the ideals and beliefs you ever had have crashed about your gun-deafened ears - you don't believe in God or them or the infallibility of England or anything but bloody war and wounds and foul smells and smutty stories and smoke and bombs and lice and filth and noise, noise, noise - you live in a world of cold sick fear, a dirty world of darkness and despair - you want to crawl ignominiously home away from these painful writhing things that once were men, these shattered, tortured faces that dumbly demand what it's all about in Christ's name ... — Evadne Price

He had found his vocation: to fight the Lord's battles in the Academy and the world at large. — Philip Zaleski

We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime, circus, concerts because we were so confined at home. — Bronagh Gallagher

A man does not know whose hands will stroke from him the last bubbles of his life. That alone should make him kinder to strangers. — Richard Selzer