Pardoen Jumet Quotes & Sayings

From the moment you put a piece of bread in your mouth you are part of the world. Who grew the wheat? Who made the bread? Where did it come from? You are in relationship with all who brought it to the table. We are least separate and most in common when we eat and drink. — Thomas Merton

It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles. — Ben Bernanke

I had never been into society; for me the world was the enclosure of the college and the seminary. I had a vague knowledge that there was a something
called woman, but I never dwelt upon the subject; I was absolutely innocent. I saw my infirm old mother only twice a year; that was the extent of my connection with the outside world. — Theophile Gautier

It is easy for anybody to call himself or herself a "Christian" but the truth is we respond from very different world-views. — Sunday Adelaja

She knew she had never been truly alive until she met him, and never so happy and content with her lot until she was touched by the sorrow of him. — Martine Leavitt

Ali and I have become friends over the years. I was on a plane with him one time when he was the champion. — Robert Goulet

At the end of the 1400s, the world changed. Two key dates can mark the beginning of modern times. In 1485, the Wars of the Roses came to an end, and, following the invention of printing, William Caxton issued the first imaginative book to be published in England - Sir Thomas Malory's retelling of the Arthurian legends as Le Morte D'Arthur. In 1492, Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas opened European eyes to the existence of the New World. New worlds, both geographical and spiritual, are the key to the Renaissance, the 'rebirth' of learning and culture, which reached its peak in Italy in the early sixteenth century and in Britain during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, from 1558 to 1603. — Ronald Carter

The problem, unstated until now, is how to live in a damaged body in a world where pain is meant to be gagged uncured ungrieved over. The problem is to connect, without hysteria, the pain of anyone's body with the pain of the world's body. — Adrienne Rich

Beyond the age of information, there is the age of choices. — Charles Eames