Vereschagin Quotes & Sayings

My mother have taught me that food is a universal passport. Whatever the constraints of language, culture or geography, food crosses over all boundaries. To offer food is to extend the hand of friendship; to accept is to be accepted into the most closed of communities. I — Joanne Harris

The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering
expresses the great natural potential of mind. — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

Everyone has something dark in their past. I suppose it's our job to overcome it. And if we can't overcome it, then all we can do is make the most of it. — Tricia Levenseller

I'm going to wake Peeta," I say.
"No, wait," says Finnick. "Let's do it together. Put our faces right in front of his."
Well, there's so little opportunity for fun left in my life, I agree. We position ourselves on either side of Peeta, lean over until our faces are inches frim his nose, and give him a shake. "Peeta. Peeta, wake up," I say in a soft, singsong voice.
His eyelids flutter open and then he jumps like we've stabbed him. "Aa!"
Finnick and I fall back in the sand, laughing our heads off. Every time we try to stop, we look at Peeta's attempt to maintain a disdainful expression and it sets us off again. — Suzanne Collins

He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul ... He was naturally learn'd; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there ... He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating in to clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some occasion is presented to him. — John Dryden

I'd rather bleed with cuts of love than live without any scars. — Pink

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs. — Joan Walsh Anglund

No matter what China is going to become, China will never recover her true originality if she tries to please the West on Western terms. — Thorsten J. Pattberg

I could feel a million reasons, but there were no words to express them. — Jerry Spinelli

Beginning with brand rather than substance is dangerous. — Peter Thiel

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. — Samuel Johnson

What is the silence of six and what are you going to do about? — E.C. Myers

O Lord, you have been our refuge in all generations. — Saint Boniface

When you value someone, it merely shows that you truly have no idea about the person that they aren't showing you. — Lionel Suggs