Berkner Quotes

#1. Under a shady tree
can you feel the soft cool grass?
can you feel it with your toes?
we can sit here while it grows.

Laurie Berkner

Laurie Berkner

#2. Let mortal man keep to his own
Mortality, and not expect too much.

Euripides

#3. It was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it.

Dave Eggers

#4. If it were not for people who stepped forward and gave me opportunities at a time when I had not proved myself at all, believe me, I would not have a career.

Kevin Spacey

#5. How could the human heart hold within its chambers at the same moment such grand measures of nobility and baseness? He wrote in his notebook: Indians at Omaha station: I am ashamed for this thing we call civilization.

Nancy Horan

#6. The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.

Sallust

#7. When I go back to God after my life, I want to make sure I go back with absolutely no talent and tell him, "I used up everything you gave me.

Abhishek Krishnan

#8. Steeped like a teabag in aristocratic pretensions ...

Philip Roth

#9. The idea of having a steady job is appealing.

Robin Williams

#10. Remember: you are as good as you are tomorrow.

Gabrielle Zevin

#11. Cross your ankles and do not move."
"Does shaking count?

Lyn Gala

#12. Gen. Scott saw more through the eyes of his staff officers than through his own.

H.W. Brands

#13. [Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence.

Aneurin Bevan

#14. I started changing my swing in late 1999.

Tiger Woods

#15. Gratitude is present when you see that everything that occurs in your life can be used to show you how to live fully as a human being.

Maria Nemeth

#16. If Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan get elected to the White House, Medicare will be bankrupt by the end of their first term.

Stephanie Cutter