Jumala Ema Quotes & Sayings

Retire? I will never retire. — Eckhard Pfeiffer

I've always been a deep thinker. Since I was a kid I was delving into the very depths of why we existed, often driving my parents crazy with unanswerable questions. — Missy Higgins

In Maya's group, the "executive branch," everyone is talking at once. Maya hangs back. Samantha, tall and plump in a purple T-shirt, takes charge. She pulls a sandwich bag from her knapsack and announces, "Whoever's holding the plastic bag gets to talk!" The students pass around the bag, each contributing a thought in turn. They remind me of the kids in The Lord of the Flies civic-mindedly passing around their conch shell, at least until all hell breaks loose. — Susan Cain

Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state. — Alexander Pope

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man. — Michael Eric Dyson

A wise man uses one ear to listen, the other to hear himself think. — Colin Tegerdine

I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night! — Cathy Rigby

We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I have found that the people who shout their opinion the loudest are usually the ones most insecure in their position.
I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.
It's not that there wasn't anything to say. It's that there was too much and words were poor substitutes for our feelings.
But Korczak's greatest legacy is not a public one, the massive stone mountain that he conquered, but the mountain he first conquered in himself-a mountain that he climbed alone-in this we can all empathize. (about the sculptor of Crazy Horse) — Richard Paul Evans

Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death. — Simone Weil

[Giving context to how radical bloomers as an article of clothing were at the time]

"The women shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord they God." - Deutronomy 22:5 — Miriam Gurko