Hensen And Perlman Quotes & Sayings

We were expecting our first child. My husband wanted a boy and I wanted a girl. The doctors tried to convince me: "You need to get an abortion. Your husband was at Chernobyl." He was a truck driver; they called him in during the first days. He drove sand. But I didn't believe anyone. The baby was born dead. She was missing two fingers. A girl. I cried. "She should at least have fingers," I thought. "She's a girl. — Svetlana Alexievich

You wouldn't be abandoning me if you stopped to get a Band-Aid, you know. — Gabrielle Zevin

The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit however, can suffocate. — Brandon Sanderson

Henri said our names were fitting because we were destined to be together in our old age, like our great-great-aunts. Two gray old ladies in the bodies of teenage girls. Someday we'd live in a big house with faded curtains, a dozen or so cats, and a handful of our marbles long ago lost. On all accounts - our destiny, her clairvoyance, and our soon-to-be missing marbles - I believed her. — Jessica Taylor

We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation gets a little stronger. — Richard Riley

I've lectured at Stanford, Princeton & Harvard to name a few ... I just might be smarter than YOU — Ice-T

When the film and music industries declined in the wake of increasingly conservative Muslim laws and social customs in Pakistan, many of these musicians found themselves out of work. They were brought together at Sachal Studios by Izzat Majeed, who built the studio in order to preserve these musical traditions. — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants. — Karl Kraus

As most adults know, the distinctions between one's essential character and value and people's perceptions of that character/value are fuzzy and hard to delineate, especially in adolescence. — David Foster Wallace

I want to inspire children to be obsessed over jewellery. — Martin Freeman

The silence accentuates the beauty of him. The beauty of this first boy of theirs. — Melina Marchetta

You'll have to think of a way to solve this, Evie. Think of something fast ... because otherwise ... " He paused to nip hungrily at her ear, " ... otherwise I'm about to screw you senseless. — Lisa Kleypas