Montandon Quotes & Sayings

I've always been very outspoken and a supporter of the underdog, because I'm one as well. I — Patricia Montandon

WITCHES LIVED AND WERE BURNED LONG BEFORE the development of modern medical technology. The great majority of them were lay healers serving the peasant population, and their suppression marks one of the opening struggles in the history of man's suppression of women as healers. The other side of the suppression of witches as healers was the creation of a new male medical profession, under the protection and patronage of the ruling classes. This new European medical profession played an important role in the witch hunts, supporting the witches' persecutors with "medical" reasoning: — Barbara Ehrenreich

Helping raise money for kids - there's nothing better than that. — Tim Tebow

Because the truth is, the world will probably whittle your daughter down. But a mother never should. — Meg Wolitzer

Thanks to my son, I've learned to laugh at myself. Laughter has been my saving grace. — Patricia Montandon

Everyone brings their own perceptions when reading a book about a real person. At the end they will take away whatever they wish. — Patricia Montandon

Nature has a way of deadening us to traumatic events, until we're ready to deal with it. And once you do, it's a volcanic reaction. — Patricia Montandon

San Francisco is poetry. Even the hills rhyme. — Patricia Montandon

My mother was the tough-as-nails disciplinarian who showed very little to no emotion. My father, on the other hand, was a study in contradiction. He was the fire, hell, and brimstone preacher, while also being incredibly gentle and forward thinking. I identify with him a lot. — Patricia Montandon

Never ask a baker what went into a pie. Just eat. — George R R Martin

He liked seeing the world through her eyes. The night, to him, was rather ordinary, overlaid with London's crowded odors and a damp that promised a deeply unlovely fog in the near future. But she preferred to consider the commonest patch of grass and the most unremarkable clump of trees worthy of a Constable canvas - in which case this night could very well have graced the ceiling of a great cathedral. — Sherry Thomas

Stop trying to trust people you already know you can't trust! — Pat Montandon

The weirdest time is when I'm having to explain myself all day to journalists, and then I don't perform, so there's no release, just a lot of self-consciousness. Then what do you do with that at the end of the day? How do you release your brain from talking about yourself all day? — Andrew Bird

I've been poor and neglected, in the middle and cherished, then rich and miserable and back to the middle and now happy. I've lived it all. — Patricia Montandon

I force myself to outline, but not too closely, so I guess I plot by the seat of my pants? My natural instinct is to dive right in, but I know I'll get stuck. I like to stick with the architect vs. gardener metaphor. I guess I'm a gardener who plants tomatoes. I have the sticks in the ground and let the vines grow along those parameters. — Victoria Aveyard