Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Quotes
And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
Quotes to Explore
-
Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they'll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them.
Hanna Rosin -
My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.
Natascha McElhone -
I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.
Olafur Eliasson -
There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.
Otto Schily -
Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.
Hanya Yanagihara -
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
Sam Levenson
-
Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
Joanne Rowling -
It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.
Sam Levenson -
There's a lot of people desperately seeking to find 'the one,' and I think we should learn to be more at peace with ourselves.
Zoe Lister-Jones -
When I tell people that I lost my baby weight through breastfeeding, they think I'm exaggerating. But it was brilliant for that. It is great for bonding with your baby. It is hard when no one else can feed her, but it was worth it for me. I loved it.
Imelda May -
How could anybody think this man was sick? All right, so he had funny dreams. That was better than being plain mean and hateful, like about one quarter of the people she had ever met.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Nine days after an attack on the United States, this tiny clique of intellectuals Neocons was telling the President of the United States...that if he did not follow their war plans, he would be charged publicly with a 'decisive surrender' to terrorism.
Pat Buchanan
-
There are dozens and dozens of improv classes across the nation, but it really cannot be taught.
Christopher Guest -
I do not watch television, never have.
Twyla Tharp -
Beer must be made by food companies. It makes you wander the streets at 3 am looking for things to eat. 'What's that, is it moving, get it!! It's a nun! FRY HER!! FRY HER!'
Dylan Moran -
It's important to me that the words that I put out there into the cosmos, into the universe, be empowering or somehow positive for people that hear them, or maybe be cathartic if someone is having a relationship that's having a tough time.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine -
Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.
Oswald Chambers -
How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had he come to rest in the quiet center of himself but had forever cast himself from some dark past he could not remember to a future that did not exist. Not once had he been present for his life. So his life had passed like a dream. Is it possible for people to miss their lives the way one can miss a plane?
Walker Percy
-
My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes.
Rabindranath Tagore -
If the Bird does not sing, Kill it.
Oda Nobunaga -
When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"
Eugene Field -
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Douglas Adams -
And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?
Elizabeth Borton de Trevino