Eva Mozes Kor Quotes

We ran up to them and they gave us hugs, cookies and chocolate. Being so alone, a hug meant more than anybody could imagine because that replaced the human warmth that we were starving for. We were not only starved for food, but we were starved for human kindness. And the Soviet Army did provide some of that.

Eva Mozes Kor

• Human
• Imagine
• Kindness
• Hug
• Cookies
• Soviet Army

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• Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Never
  • Doing
  • Morals

• My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Young

• I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Direction

• I am very much a Republican.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Republican

• I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Me
  • Waiting

• Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.

  

  Karen O
  • Amazing
  • Rock
  • Star

• A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Political
  • Best
  • Couple

• Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Problem
  • Champagne
  • Both

• Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Sound

• There's a fine line between playing through things and sitting out. I was always on the side of, 'I'm going to play through it.' It's probably good at times, bad at times, but for an athlete to always try to be there and play through things, from a teammate's perspective, it speaks volumes. Now that I look back, mentally it makes you tougher.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Play

• With giant sites like Facebook and MySpace becoming as generic as Yahoo and AOL of old, more and more sites will be looking for an edge by drilling down deeply to serve a highly targeted audience.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Down
  • Looking
  • Edge

• Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Me
  • Mankind
  • Triumph

• As U.S. citizens, Puerto Rico has paid their part.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Citizens
  • Paid
  • Puerto Rico

• Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Love
  • Know
  • Alone

• I still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it's through the Net. And I always answer it, if it's legible.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Think
  • Always
  • Answer

• I try to catch every sentence, every word you and I say, and quickly lock all these sentences and words away in my literary storehouse because they might come in handy.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Words

• When I was a child I liked watching shows about bounty hunters and Canadian Mounties. I liked the 'Lone Ranger,' I liked shows where the guy saved the girl from the villain. I just liked those kinds of things and I wanted to be a guy like that, you know, that would save the damsel in distress.

  

  Duane Chapman
  • Guy
  • Girl

• The only honest reaction and true loyalty that we get is from our animals.

  

  Dick Van Patten
  • True
  • Loyalty

• I got a call from Tom Hanks, who directed That Thing You Do!, when he was done cutting that film. I was like, "Oh, my god. Tom Hanks is calling me. This is amazing!" And then, of course, he was calling me to tell me that I was barely in the movie. But I'll never forget it - and this is why he's Tom Hanks, because he's got such a way with words.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • God
  • Done
  • Why

• There's power in the collective. If you don't believe me, just watch a symphony orchestra with a conductor and 120 people who are thinking about exactly the same thing at the same moment - no babies, no stock markets, no mortgages. Just 32nd notes.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• We ran up to them and they gave us hugs, cookies and chocolate. Being so alone, a hug meant more than anybody could imagine because that replaced the human warmth that we were starving for. We were not only starved for food, but we were starved for human kindness. And the Soviet Army did provide some of that.

  

  Eva Mozes Kor
  • Human
  • Imagine
  • Kindness