Joseph Greenberg Quotes

#1. The brave find a home in every land.

Ovid

#2. [Speaking of marriage and family] In this entire world there is not a more perfect, more complete image of God, Unity and Community. There is no other human reality which corresponds more, humanly speaking, to that divine mystery.

Pope John Paul II

#3. Could you stand still please?' Sylvia says in an irritated voice. If she had sweaty balls and an almost-boner she wouldn't be so judgmental. Am I right, or am I right?

Tara Sivec

#4. Because I love you," Iain said simply. "I always have. I love your bad temper. I love your jealous streak. I love your strength and pigheadedness. And I know you love me. And sometimes love makes people go a little crazy. The insanity won't last forever ... I hope.

Kirsten Miller

#5. I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity.

Bill Bryson

#6. A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold.

Philip Massinger

#7. It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.

Sandy Lyle

#8. I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.

Samuel Johnson

#9. I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it.

Joseph H. Greenberg

#10. It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.

Adam Yauch

#11. The ultimate goal is a comprehensive classification of what is very likely a single language family. The implications of such a classification for the origin and history of our species would, of course, be very great.

Joseph H. Greenberg

#12. A blow from a tomahawk can never be as painful as falling onto a tree branch in straddle position.

Chief Long Spear Who Hunts Beavers

#13. A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else.

Joseph H. Greenberg