Gerda Weissmann Klein Quotes

Imagine a world, in which your entire possession is one raspberry, and you give it to your friend.

Gerda Weissmann Klein

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• Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Food
  • Government
  • Water

• The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Important
  • Fence
  • Construction

• What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Man
  • Funny
  • Destiny

• I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Think
  • Responsibility
  • Push

• America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Up
  • America
  • Responsibility

• It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.

  

  Patrick McGoohan
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Rebel

• Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Mask
  • Citizenship

• For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Nature
  • Plant
  • Plants

• Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Why
  • Man
  • Him

• The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • American
  • Death
  • Dance

• I've been to Chennai several times for modelling shows and shooting ad films. It's a great place to come back to because the people are warm and welcoming. I've never had the opportunity to actually see the city, but whatever places I've been to have really caught my attention.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Spring
  • Makeup

• The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Different
  • Job
  • Giving

• My dad was a diehard Cowboys fan. I was raised as a Cowboy fan, and I was forced to be a Cowboy fan.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Dad
  • Cowboy
  • Forced

• 'They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in the Constitution. It's a lie of the Left, and we're not going to take it anymore.' 5

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Church

• Saint, n. A dead sinner, revised and edited.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.

  

  David Friedman
  • Children

• I'm a firecracker when it comes to my husband. I'm a stand by my man kind of girl.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Girl
  • Husband

• I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Country
  • Blue
  • Grass

• Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• I have never once claimed that I have a Combat Action Badge. I have never claimed that I have a Purple Heart. What I have claimed is that I have served in a combat zone.

  

  Joni Ernst
  • Heart
  • Action
  • Purple

• Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • Friend

• The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Friend
  • Moments
  • Answers

• Imagine a world, in which your entire possession is one raspberry, and you give it to your friend.

  

  Gerda Weissmann Klein
  • Friend
  • Give
  • Possession