Hope Edelman Quotes

#1. I couldn't chance failing in New York yet, letting the city fail me. It was the only place I knew I belonged. If I couldn't survive there, I would have no place else to go.

Hope Edelman

#2. Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher, a friend. It could be you. You never know when a little love, a little support will plant a small seed of hope.

Marian Wright Edelman

#3. When a mother dies, a daughter grieves. And then her life moves on. She does, thankfully, feel happiness again. But the missing her, the wanting her, the wishing she were still here - I will not lie to you, although you probably already know. That part never ends.

Hope Edelman

#4. Hope is the best contraceptive.

Marian Wright Edelman

#5. Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

Hope Edelman

#6. I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help ...

Marian Wright Edelman

#7. Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

Marian Wright Edelman

#8. Hope is not a financial plan.

Ric Edelman

#9. I don't want you accusing me of treating you like all my other dates."
"Does that mean you won't fuck me at the end?"
"It means I won't leave you at the end.

Whitney Gracia Williams

#10. Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender.

Hope Edelman

#11. I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights ... It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday.

Regina Spektor

#12. There is an emptiness inside of me
a void that will never be filled. No one in your life will ever love you as your mother does. There is no love as pure, unconditional and strong as a mother's love. And I will never be loved that way again.

Hope Edelman

#13. Somewhere in that hour I lost all relation to a middle ground, and I didn't regain it for what became a very long time. In

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#14. I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Margaret Thatcher

#15. I tell you this, madam, no man at court will be able to fart soon without asking Cecil first.

Susan Kay

#16. When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers at the edge of her awareness, prepared to surface at any time, in any place, in the least expected ways.

Hope Edelman

#17. In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#18. It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.

Marian Wright Edelman

#19. When a mother dies, a daughter's mourning never completely ends.

Hope Edelman

#20. You cannot relate to your pastor properly until you have thoroughly, in your heart, made him your pastor.

Mark T. Barclay

#21. Motherless mothers with a history of caretaking experience, usually for sick mothers or younger siblings when they were still children themselves, said that the round-the-clock nature of infant and toddler care sometimes brought up familiar emotions from the past.

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#22. Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end.

Hope Edelman

#23. At the time, the rich basically bought the laws. So

K.F. Breene

#24. New York City is filled with random, quirky moments like this, chance collisions that just might change your life.

Hope Edelman