Kornblumen Quotes & Sayings

Admire the United
States not for what we were but for what we might become. Self-governing
democracy was not an established creed, but a program for growth. — John Dos Passos

Foolish men say things in anger that they later regret and an angry tongue does not mean one is guilty. — Julie Garwood

Never climb a tree in a long dress," Kate panted, coming up behind me.
"I'll remember that," I said. — Kenneth Oppel

When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable. — Anthony Trollope

You can't separate the clothes from the stores, from the environment. — Mickey Drexler

The Sweat and the Furrow was Silas Weekley being earthly and spade-conscious all over seven hundred pages. The situation, to judge from the first paragraph, had not materially changed since Silas's last book: mother lying-in with her eleventh upstairs, father laid-out after his ninth downstairs, eldest son lying to the Government in the cow-shed, eldest daughter lying with her lover in the the hayloft, everyone else lying low in the barn. The rain dripped from the thatch, and the manure steamed in the midden. Silas never omitted the manure. It was not Silas's fault that its steam provided the only uprising element in the picture. If Silas could have discovered a brand of steam that steamed downwards, Silas would have introduced it. — Josephine Tey

He has never known a woman so free from conceit, vanity, ambition, pretense. He has never known a woman so willing to show the world that she is a human being. — Elin Hilderbrand

She felt secure only in her terrible sense of insecurity. — Azar Nafisi

Isolating, shutting down, and feeling guilt about pain makes it linger so much longer. Reconnecting, trusting, and being open and honest is really the only cure. Reaching out and talking to loved ones and friends is a must. — Jaime Murray

I'm usually a fairly harsh critic. It depends. I tend to really not watch my work, because I just feel uncomfortable, and I can be highly critical. — Jenny Slate