Trautmannsdorfer Quotes & Sayings

As with the mountains, there'd been no deserts where I grew up, and though I'd gone on day hikes in a couple of them, I didn't really understand what deserts were. I'd taken them to be dry, hot, and sandy places full of snakes, scorpions, and cactuses. They were not that. They were that and also a bunch of other things. They were layered and complex and inexplicable and analogous to nothing. My new existence was beyond analogy, I realized on that second day on the trail. I was in entirely new terrain. — Cheryl Strayed

My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad. — Jane Pauley

To become aware of what is constant in the flux of nature and life is the first step in abstract thinking. The recognition of regularity in the courses of the heavenly bodies and in the succession of seasons first provides a basis for a systematic ordering of events, and this knowledge makes possible a calendar ... Simultaneously with this concept, a system of relationships comes into the idea of the world. Change is not something absolute, chaotic, and kaleidoscopic; its manifestation is a relative one, something connected with fixed points and a given order. — Hellmut Wilhelm

What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.' — Lady Gregory

I'm probably the sexiest and best in bed. Even if I'm by myself in bed. — Blink-182

Dads. Do you not realize that your child needs to feel your skin on his? Do you not realize the incredible and powerful bond that skin on skin contact with your daughter will give you? Do you not understand the permanent mental connections that are made when you stroke your son's bare back or rub your daughter's bare tummy while you tell bedtime stories? And if any idiot says anything about that being inappropriate, you're gonna get kicked in the face, first by me, and then by every other good dad out there. Touching your child is your duty as a father. — Dan Pearce

Rather than look at a marriage as two people morphing into one thing, you could see two individuals who are choosing to form a partnership. — Joe Swanberg

Meaning is also a colour and that's why there are many colours in the black and white photos! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You've got to love something enough to kill it. — Martin Scorsese

Why do we say 'the cockles of your heart'?" David said. "Nothing to do with whelks, I suppose. — Philip Hensher

An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

He glared at me as if I were solely responsible for the food shortage not only at the opening, but in several third world countries on top of it. — Nicole Castle

both had strawberry blonde hair, fair skin and long legs, their personalities were night and day. — Allison Goh

The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others. — Timothy Keller

Tax policy is not about compassion. — Michael Steele