Saumensch German Quotes & Sayings

The tea tasted like a clear dark dripping from the past. My grandmother came back with it, in crisp black funeral silks, — Ross Macdonald

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies. — Carolyn Heilbrun

Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in front of the left and the left in front of the right, moving down narrow corridors toward narrow goals. Play widens the halls. Work will always be with us, and many works are worthy. But the worthiest works of all often reflect an artful creativity that looks more like play than work. — James Ogilvy

It's dangerous being free, but most come to like the taste o' it. — George R R Martin

Human relationships with predators have always been thorny. Predators are the first creatures our kind purposely eradicates. Too often, people feel humans are and should be in control; we are enraged to discover this is not true. And when other creatures share our appetites and kill our livestock (often animals we were raising to kill, ourselves), we call them vandals and murderers ... Predators are the most persecuted creatures on Earth. — Sy Montgomery

I don't think there's anything that will make me stop doing it. There may be a time when it's not available to anyone. You may have to come listen at my basement window ... but I can't stop. — Paul Westerberg

Our bond was Palestine. It was
a language we dismantled to construct a home. — Susan Abulhawa

Writers are professional eavesdroppers. — Tolulope Popoola

Every time I reach a new peak, I see a new one I want to climb. — Madonna Ciccone

You might be an Alpha, but your family will always find a way to play you. — Suzanne Wright

I could not accept from wisdom
what love taught,
woman is perfect. — Hilda Doolittle

Find a way to get back in to the game, find a way to build a partnership, find a way to get bowling partnerships, find a way to catch a ball, find a way to stop it. — Shane Warne

The past is the present, isn't it? It's the future, too. We all try to lie out of that but life won't let us. — Eugene O'Neill

When you gaze upon the lovely sight. Of twins, arm in arm, asleep at night. Think not that the house has been doubly messed. But that you, as parents, have been doubly blessed. — John Walter Bratton