Nascimur Quotes & Sayings

Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. — Susanna Kaysen

I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself. — Imelda May

15And he said to them, Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions. — Scott Hahn

Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice. — Anne Frank

As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent, the hatred between them tends to decrease, for the simple reason that you can't kill someone and trade with him too. — Steven Pinker

You, that judge men by the handle and the sheath, how can I make you know a good blade? — Jedediah M. Grant

Stop making excuses and start making history. — A.D. Posey

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others. — John Petit-Senn

All neurotics, and many others besides, take exception to the fact that 'inter urinas et faeces nascimur. — Sigmund Freud

If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singulary generic modern culture that takes for granted an impoverished environment - is a source of dismay. There is, indeed, a fire burning over the earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures, languages, ancient skills and visionary wisdom. Quelling this flame, and re-inventing the poetry of diversity is perhaps the most importent challenge of our times. — Wade Davis

You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable. (In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz) — Marcel Duchamp

He had forgotten that grief does not decline in a straight line or along a slow curve...almost as if his body contained a big pile of garden rubbish full of both heavy lumps of dirt and of sharp thorny brush that would stab him when he least expected it.
p 35 — Helen Simonson

The more you read the more places you will go,the more places you go the more things you will learn. — Dr. Seuss