Kestenbaum Judaica Quotes & Sayings

Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents. — Anne Lamott

I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town. — Chelsea Cain

Of course The Exorcist changed my entire life. I don't think there are very many people that will have the experience of sitting in this room, doing a job, and the next thing you know you've been on every television camera around the world, and people are they're frightened of you. — Linda Blair

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. — Thomas A. Edison

[T]he pied beauty of humanity should not be carved into acceptable and unacceptable based on things that simply make us who we are. — Andrew Sullivan

See it first in your mind, then become it. — Steve Backley

We feel unhappy and confused with our life when we don't do the focus or calling that God has on our life. — John C. Maxwell

I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from. — Dwight Yoakam

When the child was a child, it didn't know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one. — Peter Handke

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh. — Amartya Sen

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face. — Caleb Carr

The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too much, and God too little. — John Flavel

I look at obstacles as opportunities. — Jon Jones

THE THOUGHTFUL LOVER Deny yourself all half things. Have it or leave it. But it will keep - or it is not worth the having. Never start anything you can't finish - However do not lose faith because you are starved! She loves you she says. Believe it - tomorrow. But today the particulars of poetry that difficult art require your whole attention. — William Carlos Williams

And we will know them by their actions there. C — Alexander Freed