Helenius Kowalski Quotes & Sayings

If you knew what I knew, seen what I've seen, you wouldn't be so quick to pull the plow. — Rita Williams-Garcia

Little world, full of scars and gashes, ripened with another's pain,
Your flowers feed on carrion
so do your birds;
Men feed on each other because you taught them life was cheap,
Flowing from your endless womb without pain or understanding.
No midwife caresses your flesh or bathes clean your progeny,
Life spurts from you, little world,
and you regard it with disdain.
Only bruised men sense your cruelty,
men whose life has lost its meaning. — James Kavanaugh

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom. — Ezra Stiles

Hiroshima is like a nakedly exposed wound inflicted on all mankind. — Kenzaburo Oe

Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood. — Garrison Keillor

The Church is the body of Christ fashioned by baptism & the Eucharist. — Henri Nouwen

What you don't do is surrender. You might retreat occasionally, but you don't give up. — Chris Brogan

We vote - if the public votes 50 percent, we vote 70 percent. So we have a bigger impact with our numbers, and the organization and the manpower we can bring to a race. — James P. Hoffa

Our mothers are our first teachers, and we teach others the same lessons we learn from them. As a child, when your mother believes in you, you believe in yourself, and when that happens, there is nothing you can't do. As a mother, that is the greatest gift we can give to a child. — Caroline Kennedy

This isn't D.C., Murrary, this is Ann Arbor, Michigan. This is a long-haired, pot-smoking little college town. — Scott Sigler

doing nothing is more expedient than doing something. - — Friedrich Nietzsche

Learning and education have frequently degenerated into the systematic accumulation of facts and information. — Stephen Batchelor

The Pleading of the Summer - That other Prank - of Snow - That Cushions Mystery with Tulle, For fear the Squirrels - know. — Emily Dickinson

Your situation and prospects only seem hopeless because you have ideas of hope. Knock off that hope and the crippling feelings of helplessness go with it. — U.G. Krishnamurti

When you buy a new pair of shoes you can start all fresh again and have confendce on what you are going — Lisa Greenwald