Schildenaar Quotes & Sayings

It lifts my spirits to see the statues of mothers, working women, and female peasants. These respectful and well-maintained tributes to women make the day special for me; this art is a lasting reminder that women matter in these rural Spanish towns and that women's contributions are remembered. — Jane V. Blanchard

I'd come home from school alone with those teenage blues and I'd put on Frank Sinatra's It was a very good year. Here was this mature man singing about the cycle of his life, and as a kid I felt the emotions of it already. It has since been a touchstone for me whenever I want to experiment musically. — Iggy Pop

She had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, loneliness ... but at the moment she felt unusually vulnerable. — Lisa Kleypas

Births and deaths are inevitable for man only during the state of ignorance in which he thinks he is the body and cannot exist without it. Only the man who will not seek the awakening of wisdom must suffer the nightmares and delusive dreams of births and deaths and the fanciful miseries and limitations attending them. (gt) — Paramahansa Yogananda

It's a trick. Get an axe." - Ash, Army of Darkness — Pete Kahle

Management means the development of people, not the direction of things. — Bob Proctor

The Past is what it was and did what its done.... — Isaiah Wallowingbull

A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable. — Carl Jung

There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can't, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having. — Terry Pratchett

Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event? — Emile M. Cioran

I pictured Phillip in the tree. How his arm stayed stretched out, his hand empty, long after my dad pulled me away. — Jillian Dodd

120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. — Sam Harris

To live is to experience dying and is worse than death, — Anchee Min