Top 29 Karen Cushman Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Karen Cushman

#1. My pains are but trifling things compared to my joy.

#2. Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.

Harry Browne

#3. How can you fight stupidity effectively? The answer is simple: it's not easy.

William C. Brown

#4. As many opinions as there are men; each a law to himself.

Terence

#5. I know what I want. A full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.

Karen Cushman

#6. She must not look too proud nor yet too humble, lest people say she is proud of her humility."

Excerpt From: "Catherine, Called Birdy.

Karen Cushman

#7. I feel safer when you're here. You're so big and sturdy, like a beautiful tree I can lean on and not knock over.

Karen Cushman

#8. I cannot escape my life but can only use my determination and courage to make it the best I can.

Karen Cushman

#9. Sometimes a man has got to hock his sweet used-to-be in order to finance his present situation...

Tennessee Williams

#10. Seems to me God made a big mistake when He failed to put handles on watermelons.

Karen Cushman

#11. Just because you don't know everything don't mean you know nothing.

Karen Cushman

#12. Just as a river by night shines with the reflected light of the moon, so too do you shine with the light of your family, your people, and your God. So you are never far from home, never alone, wherever you go.

Karen Cushman

#13. Iran is taking over Iraq. They've been trying to for many, many decades. And now they're finally taking over Iraq. As we sit here, they're taking over Iraq. We get nothing.

Donald Trump

#14. I cannot be a monk, nor a crusader, nor a tumbler. I must stay here and hem sheets until I die. My humors are greatly out of balance. I prescribe for myself wormwood and spiced wine and some of the custard left from supper, and I will let all of the dogs sleep in my bed.

Karen Cushman

#15. [in the context of 1881] "Don't you want to get married and have babies? Mrs. Bergman used to say that women need-" "What women need is more exercise, shorter skirts, and their own way once in a while.

Karen Cushman

#16. Fathers should make you feel safe.

Karen Cushman

#17. Minds, like diapers, need occasional changing.

Karen Cushman

#18. It's important to know what you think, my dear, or else you will be so hemmed in by other people's ideas and opinions, you won't have room for your own.

Karen Cushman

#19. I am near fourteen and have never yet seen a hanging. My life is barren.

Karen Cushman

#20. Corpus bones, I thought. To be wedded to this perfumed prig with his mouth in a knot and a frown always on his face!

Karen Cushman

#21. Seems to me home is where I am loved and safe and needed.

Karen Cushman

#22. She dreamed of nothing, for she hoped for nothing and expected nothing. It was as cold and dark inside her as out in the frosty night.

Karen Cushman

#23. God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.

Oswald Chambers

#24. I hope you theorists know what you're doing.' 'I can assure you that we don't. The geometry is still beyond us. All I learnt in the void was that our best guess so far is certainly wrong.

Greg Egan