Oud Nederlandse Quotes & Sayings

Someday you will name me,
then gently place those burning
holy roses in my hair.
[Songs of Longing] — Rainer Maria Rilke

I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends. — Fiona Apple

But I thought you were home to stay," she said, exhaustion clear in her voice.
"Ellie, you were my home." He looked down at the sleeping infant. "But I can't stick around and watch you make the biggest mistake of your life. — Lindsey Brookes

As a child, I wanted to marry a farmer, but no doubt the reality would have been very different to the idyll in my head. — Jane Asher

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you. — Red Cloud

Oh God, my poor baby ... she's just as fucked up as I am. I love it! — Jenn Cooksey

Works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which lets them drift through doors and walls, and their smell of death, disgust us not more than we disgust works of art by our meaninglessness, our diffuseness in time which lets us drift through three score years and ten without a quarter as much significance as a picture establishes instantaneously. — Rebecca West

Workers in decent jobs view the economy as unjust if they or their children have virtually no chance of climbing to a higher rung in the socioeconomic ladder. — Edmund Phelps

I decide to make the most of the time we got left before she gets too big for this small town. — Steven Herrick

Because Spanish is a feeling-based language that comes first from the heart, just as English is a thinking-based language that comes first from the head. — Victor Villasenor

There were certain films where I went, 'Oh, my God, I'm doing a movie.' — Salli Richardson

Our hero status is not dependant on our human might or power or even our human spirit; it comes from the power of His spirit. — Lisa Bevere

Feed him ye must, whose food fills you.
And that this pleasure is like raine,
Not sent ye for to drowne your paine,
But for to make it spring againe. — Robert Herrick

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time. — Jessalyn Gilsig