Elizabeth Berg Quotes
It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing it when she's 62.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think beauty can be everywhere.
-
Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
-
I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
-
I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
-
Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
-
I can only control what I can control.
-
Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
-
You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.
-
I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
-
I'm a political conservative.
-
My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.
-
I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.
-
You cannot have adoration without being criticized.
-
Certain struggles never end.
-
We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
-
Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
-
For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
-
If you want to lose weight, you have to be obsessed with it. You can't depend upon your dietician, your trainer or various health aids that you have. You have to be organised. And believe me, it isn't that difficult. The first 10 days are terrible because you have to break the lifelong habits that you have made.
-
I remember also speaking to a reporter on Gay News who enquired about my attitude to Gay Dogs and reassuring him of my compassionate attitude to homosexuality among dogs, while secretly feeling they ought to be whipped.
-
On our swim team, they had something called the 'developmental meet.' I didn't know it was a meet only for the worst kids so that they could get a ribbon, and I'd show up with my friend who was also a terrible swimmer, and we would be amazed that the best kids hadn't bothered to show up. I didn't get it until after college.
-
No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.
-
There's a special place in heaven for caregivers.
-
It's a really fun hobby to set imagery to music, and finding the right songs for that. Your favorite song in the world might not work at all... for one reason or another.
-
It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing it when she's 62.
