Christina Stead Quotes
When we are born, we are studied, and deviations, if noxious to the species, are suppressed; good deviations are preserved. And furthermore, we bear our formula on our arm band!
Quotes to Explore
-
There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
-
The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
-
When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
-
I think family is our reason for being. I was lucky to be born into a very close-knit family.
-
If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
-
Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
-
I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
-
I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it's an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.
-
I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.
-
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
-
I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.
-
I studied drama.
-
I was born in Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh, as my parents are both pandits from there. But I was brought up in Chandigarh.
-
One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
-
I was born an auntie. I have an older niece and nephew and many younger nieces and nephews.
-
I studied math, and I was terrible at it.
-
I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot.
-
The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.
-
You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
-
These women were taking over these former manufacturing warehouses in SoHo and figuring out a way to be fashionable and viable without money. It's hard to imagine a life like that in Manhattan now - there's something romantic about it.
-
Things have to be believable, not in a literal, photographic sense, but in an emotional sense - capturing the essence of the situation.
-
I know that with my spinal condition I can never be full time again - I just can't do that, but I do wanna be full time, and I don't want to retire.
-
When we are born, we are studied, and deviations, if noxious to the species, are suppressed; good deviations are preserved. And furthermore, we bear our formula on our arm band!
