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

• Friend
• Give
• Possession

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• 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

• '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

• 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

• The Great Khali always serves up a good beatdown if you can't get out from under that heavy hand.

  

  Jeff Hardy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• I like my raps, but I'm never too happy with some of 'em because I feel like they could be better.

  

  Tyler, The Creator
  • Happy

• Data is something we create, but it's also something we imagine.

  

  Kate Crawford

• We must become just be doing just acts.

  

  Aristotle
  • Doing
  • Just
  • Become

• The modern world lies under a pervasive sense of anguish, of being abandoned, or at least experiencing God as absent. Yet events that seem to turn our lives upside down and inside out are part of God's redemptive plan, not only for us, but for the world in which we live. God may be preparing a great awakening for the world, if God can find enough people to cooperate in this mysterious plan.

  

  Thomas Keating
  • People
  • World
  • Lying

• Every so often, if I'm in a melancholy mood, I'll sing 'Desperado' in my shows. I'll sit alone at the piano and play it as a solo. The song feels like an old friend - except now it's saying, 'You were a desperado once, but you worked your way out of it.'

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Song
  • Alone
  • Friend

• I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Friend
  • Subjects
  • Microsoft

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

  

  Gerda Weissmann Klein
  • Friend
  • Give
  • Possession