Erica Jong Quotes

Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.

Erica Jong

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• I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Up
  • You
  • Poverty

• Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • History
  • Spanish
  • France

• The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Government
  • Trust
  • Lesson

• There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Style
  • Flesh
  • Purity

• People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • People
  • Lesson
  • Bear

• Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word... [it has] its own mysteries - this is my birth [control] pill; swallow it in remembrance of me!

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Society
  • Control
  • Beginning

• The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Change
  • Lesson
  • Winds

• Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver.

  

  Alfred Austin
  • Lesson
  • Bashfulness
  • Matron`s

• It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Firsts
  • Flesh
  • Would Be

• William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell: 'The nakedness of woman is the work of God', Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Work
  • God
  • Heaven

• Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Unhappy

• Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Sins
  • Flesh

• I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Destroy

• The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Long
  • History
  • Financial

• We are trying to find out if we can use the worms or their products to lesson the impact of allergies

  

  John Britton
  • Trying
  • Impact
  • Products

• I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Life
  • Men
  • Remains

• There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Feels

• I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • People
  • Money
  • Love

• In a way, I was almost happy to see her. The worst part of me, out in the flesh. Blinking back at me in the dim light, daring me to call her a name other than my own.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Light
  • Worst
  • Flesh

• I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Flesh
  • Time to Time
  • Family Face

• If grandparents want to have a meaningful and constructive role, the first lesson they must learn is that becoming a grandparent is not having a second chance at parenthood!

  

  Eda LeShan
  • Chance
  • Role
  • Grandparents

• I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create the kind of 'art' which the confused critics praise for its 'plastic significance,' 'fluid lines,' and 'inner awareness,' or 'must be understood on three levels.

  

  Arnold Friberg
  • Want
  • Understand
  • Pictures

• We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • World
  • More
  • Ourselves

• Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Lesson
  • Flesh