Satter Quotes & Sayings

One day I will know the face of love...it shall gaze back at me from a pool of water, undisturbed by what lies beneath. — Susan D. Taylor

Your job as a parent is not to make your child's way smooth, but rather to help her develop inner resources so she can cope. — Ellyn Satter

The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating. — Joseph Campbell

Living is hard
dying is easy. You close your eyes and never open them again. What's so difficult about that? Nothing really
except it hurts like hell to those you leave behind. — Rachel Van Dyken

Brother," wrote one Cherokee chief, "we give up to our white brothers all the land we could any how spare, and have but little left...and we hope you won't let any people take any more from us without our consent. We are neither birds nor fish; we can neither fly in the air nor live under water.... We are made by the same hand and in the same shape as yourselves. — Joseph J. Ellis

The command to be free is a double bind — Kim Stanley Robinson

Bribery quickly became an integral part of the Russian way of doing business, and the expense of buying a government official was considered the most important part of a new enterprise's starting capital. — David Satter

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are. — William Faulkner