Hershkovitz Quotes & Sayings

You cannot be brave without fear. — Mellody Hobson

To know and be known: that was the final desire, the heart of love. — Justin Cronin

The motion of the stars calculated by the Hindus before some 4500 years vary not even a single minute from the tables of Cassine and Meyer (used in the 19-th century). The Indian tables give the same annual variation of the moon as the discovered by Tycho Brahe - a variation unknown to the school of Alexandria and also to the Arabs who followed the calculations of the school ... The Hindu systems of astronomy are by far the oldest and that from which the Egyptians, Greek, Romans and - even the Jews derived from the Hindus their knowledge. — Jean Sylvain Bailly

I am in love with this world ... I have tilled its soil, I have gathered its harvest, I have waited upon its seasons, and always have I reaped what I have sown. I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings. — John Burroughs

Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself? — Libba Bray

When that time come, nobody will care for each other.
You don't have to prove me wrong, you'll need that energy. — Toba Beta

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere! — Dr. Seuss

Just as our brains fill in the details of an image our eyes record only roughly, so, too, do our brains employ tricks we are unaware of to fill in details about people we don't know intimately. — Leonard Mlodinow

If you put your mind in calm, the world will put you in peace. — Chhenghak Yang

[London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic ... One lives in it, afloat but half submerged in a heavy flood of brick, stone, asphalt, slate, steel, glass, concrete, and tarmac, seeing nothing fixable beyond a few score white spires that splash up like spits of foam above the next glum wave of dirty buildings. — V.S. Pritchett

God is that indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know. — Mahatma Gandhi

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses. — Henry Miller

Crib death was so infrequent in the pre-vaccination era that it was not even mentioned in the statistics, but it started to climb in the 1950s with the spread of mass vaccination against diseases of childhood. — Harris L Coulter

One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones. — Waylon Jennings