Roditeli Quotes & Sayings

I made up adventures and divesed a life for myself so as to live, at least somehow, a little. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Wisdom is a tree of slow growth; the rings around its trunk are earthly lives, and the grooves between are the periods between lives. Who grieves that an acorn is slow in becoming an oak? — Elsa Barker

I spent hours gazing out at the bright rivers and lush meadows. How little different it can have looked when this was China's Outer Tartary. I also spent hours thinking about the pivotal moments in the story of the Amur, the fur-driven impulse that first brought the Russians to this place, the Manchu repulse that pushed them away, and finally the nineteenth-century nationalist urgings that brought them back. It was like a ball ricocheting over historical time, absorbing fresh energies (including, later, manufactured grievances) at critical points. — Dominic Ziegler

Owning a great golf course gives you great power. — Donald Trump

Martin Sheen is my pinup! And Allison Janney, oh my God. They're brilliant actors. — Sophie Thompson

If I have one wish for my birthday, it is that 35 is the end of desperation and the beginning of acceptance. Part of that is believing that if I'm meant to give birth, I will. — Jessi Klein

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves. — Robert Kiyosaki

Though I believe in God, I don't believe in religion for everybody. Some people who are a little weak and don't want to shoulder any responsibility need Catholicism. For people at the other extreme, there is Christian Science ... I think a powerful conscience is worth all the religions put together. — Preston Sturges

Everything changed when I learned to honour my body instead of fighting it. When I learned to take care of it, like a precious castle to protect this weary heart. To stop harming it, punishing it for looking like this or that, feeling like this or that. I don't look like they all told me I had to do, but I'm healthy and strong and vital. That is enough. — Charlotte Eriksson

Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s. — Roy Haynes

Talent is nice to have, perseverance is even better. — Martin Limbeck

I had a chance to play with the best musicians that were coming through because I was pretty good myself or else they wouldn't have tolerated with me. — Louis Armstrong

Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. — Pat Robertson

I think everybody has the capacity for change. — Gwendoline Christie