Gerardus Quotes

#1. I discovered books and read forever

John Adams

#2. How on earth do people imagine we equip children for life if we never show them the sorts of issues other people encounter, if we never talk through with them how they might deal with difficulty or violence or unexpected shocks and surprises?

Margo Lanagan

#3. For they both were solitary,
She on earth and he is heaven.
And he wooed her with caressed,
Wooed her with his smile of sunshine
-Song of Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Jana Oliver

#4. Nothing is going to happen to you if you throw salt on the floor, stand under a ladder, or see eight black cats on the street.

Penelope Cruz

#5. The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.

Robert Morgan

#6. One day we will all be a photo, a lifeless picture! But this thought is valid only for now, it may not be valid after now! All truths can change, all truths are valid only at this very moment we are in!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

#8. Like everything else, the beans had exploded with growth in the last few days. "Holy jumping garbanzos!" my father declared. My mother answered with, "Great leapin' limas!

Will Hobbs

#9. The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.

Pope John Paul II

#10. When I saw that Moses' version of the Genesis of the world did not fit sufficiently in many ways with Aristotle and the rest of the philosophers, I began to have doubts about the truth of all philosophers and started to investigate the secrets of nature.

Gerardus Mercator