Schtetl Quotes & Sayings

I struck my match, she poured out her gasoline. We burn now. All the time. — Tarryn Fisher

Patron Saint of Failures St Birgitta of Sweden. — Alain De Botton

Childrens' laughter is like medicine to sadness. — Tyler Perry

My grandmother was very important to me. She gave me my religious education. She gave me a sense of the female side of Judaism, of the rich store of stories and legends of the women of the schtetl. — Marge Piercy

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control ... to be locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare. — Lance Morrow

Be open to suggestions, but don't let anyone dictate how you should tell your story. Who can possibly tell your story better than you? — Giuseppe Bianco

When I wrote 'Before The Dawn,' I made it quite clear that there are lots of people involved in my life who I can't talk about simply because I'd put them at risk. — Gerry Adams

The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit. — Robert Grosseteste

His error was in going to Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks's party. At Banks's party they probably had a little too much liquor. Afterward Grant was riding very, very rapidly; his horse shied when it saw an omnibus driving along the city streets. — Edwin C. Bearss

I used to go to San Diego all the time to hang out. My cousin played for the San Diego Padres, and my brother lives down there. I love going to the zoo and walking around Old Town. — Drake Bell

What more you expect from a nation that honors a barbarian. — M.F. Moonzajer