Top 38 Ausubel Quotes
#1. Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.
Harriet Harman
#2. You must have come from very far down," Alice says to the fish, "to have your own lantern.
Ramona Ausubel
#3. Our tears are precious, necessary, and part of what make us such endearing creatures.
David Richo
#4. Are we nothing but heel skin and blisters? Traveling a straight line to the end of our lives?
Ramona Ausubel
#5. The only true thing is what's in front of you right now.
Ramona Ausubel
#6. The children always needed Fern to be a different kind of mother than she had been the week before. They exhausted her and she longed for a break and then she missed them acutely the moment they were out of sight - that was the truth of motherhood.
Ramona Ausubel
#7. If he had to spend the evening with madwomen, he would prefer at least one of them be willing to let him grope her.
Thomm Quackenbush
#8. There should be a word for this happiness, she thought. The happiness of nothing extra.
Ramona Ausubel
#9. The Finn is the most watery person in Europe ... Here people take baths that last three or four hours and steep their bodies in water right down to their most secret selves.
Angel Ganivet
#10. Organized medicine quickly adopted the stance that his alleged "cures" fell into three categories: those who never had cancer in the first place; those who were cured by prior radiation and surgery; and those who died. When Healing Becomes a Crime
Kenny Ausubel
#11. Perhaps fate is an answer from God ... or perhaps fate is nothing more than an accident - two ships lost in the dark, running aground on the same windward beach.
Ramona Ausubel
#12. This dinosaur skeleton was a body plus time. They all were. The question was what they wanted to do and who they wanted to love in the years when muscle and skin still covered them.
Ramona Ausubel
#13. unless one bought her way out of it, motherhood was a small room with high walls and no door.
Ramona Ausubel
#14. You know that smell, when you put your nose up to a pine tree?" I told her I did perfectly. "No matter how long it has been, you always will. Like you are storing a part of that tree in your own body ... Everything stays true. You are yourself, no matter how much you have to change.
Ramona Ausubel
#16. Time was a dazzling lie, a magician worth a bird in his hat. The truth, I felt certain, was that everything happened at once. How old was I? I was every age at the same time. All the days of our lives were today.
Ramona Ausubel
#17. The greatest weapon of mass destruction is corporate economic globalization.
Kenny Ausubel
#18. The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.
David Ausubel
#19. Life is effortful," said Mac. "That's the way it's supposed to be. It's good to have work to do.
Ramona Ausubel
#20. A person who wants to believe lives in a world full of proof.
Ramona Ausubel
#21. The process of living is to surrender what, for a few glimmering days or years, you have been allowed to hold. But there is no such place as gone.
Ramona Ausubel
#22. Once upon a time, tomorrow was the first day of the world.
Ramona Ausubel
#23. The moment we were in was a hinge - the past swung on one side, the future on the other.
Ramona Ausubel
#24. How furiously she loved them and how heavy it was to carry that quantity of love, how perilous to care for those delicate bodies in the spinning world.
Ramona Ausubel
#25. Nothing was more terrifying than what families could do to each other.
Ramona Ausubel
#26. Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.
Kenny Ausubel
#27. This was a season of worry and joy living side by side in Fern. They did not cancel each other out or blend to create a soft grey. Love could not temper fear and fear could not temper love.
Ramona Ausubel
#28. And it was only as he rose from the bed, his body illuminated by the colored lights of the city, that I caught the glint of calculation behind his eyes, a cold, blank set to his face. His shadow self, and not a nice one.
Jennifer Egan
#29. It doesn't always make sense, how you go about loving someone. Sometimes loving means gathering them back, sometimes it means sending them away.
Ramona Ausubel
#30. Seeds carry life from generation to generation without end. Through the seeds speak the voices of the ancestors. Each time we plant a seed, we become ancestors for the generations to come.
Kenny Ausubel
#31. Regret is the most useless thing in the world. One cannot recall anything. And one cannot rectify anything. Otherwise we would all be saints. Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum. Joan
Erich Maria Remarque
#32. For heartsickness of the unending variety, befriend a dove. Do not catch it, not even so that you can set it free. Just get down on the ground with bread crumbs on your chest and wait for it to find you interesting.
Ramona Ausubel
#33. Around the world today people are spontaneously spawning a culture dedicated to creating conditions conducive to life.
Kenny Ausubel
#35. He looked like someone trying to sell something for less than it was worth.
Ramona Ausubel
#36. I think family is key, and if you have love for family, then you have love for others - and you have unity as a people.
Marlon Wayans
#37. It might still drown you, but love got deeper with time.
Ramona Ausubel
#38. The truest luxury of long-term wealth was that no one in the family thought about money anymore.
Ramona Ausubel
