Halicz Galicia Quotes & Sayings

When you've lived in a cage, you can't bear not to run, even if what you're running towards is an illusion. — Robert C. O'Brien

She turns to me sharply. "To live _is_ to fight," she snaps. "To preserve life is to fight _everything_ that man stands for." She takes an angry huff of air. "And now her, too, with all the bombs. I fight them every time I bandage the blackened eye of a woman, every time I remove shrapnel from a bomb victim."
Her voice has raised but she lowers it again. "That's my war," she says. "That's the war I'm fighting. — Patrick Ness

No school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests — Dorothy H Cohen

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together. — Madeleine Albright

I wish I could take language And fold it like cool, moist rags. I would lay words on your forehead. I would wrap words on your wrists. 'There, there,' my words would say - Or something better. I would ask them to murmur, 'Hush' and 'Shh, shhh, it's all right.' I would ask them to hold you all night. I wish I could take language And daub and soothe and cool Where fever blisters and burns, Where fever turns yourself against you. I wish I could take language And heal the words that were the wounds You have no names for. — Julia Margaret Cameron

It's just something I've always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart. — Guy Clark

All of my memories were laced with him; to extract them would mean losing the flavor of my childhood. — Jodi Picoult

Highly processed and calorie-laden foods are cheap, abundant, and very well marketed: think doughnuts, soda, chips, and candy. To reiterate, this "advance" has come at tremendous cost. All our major chronic diseases have resulted from this abundance. — Franklin House

The lives of the poor are rich in symbols. — Rohinton Mistry