Kercheval Quotes

#1. When you live in an environment where you aren't allowed to be fully who you are, you aren't taken seriously, and you aren't respected. What that actually does to a person's confidence and psyche is really fascinating to me.

Andre Holland

#2. One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.

Elie Wiesel

#3. When I was a kid, I had serious athlete's foot and nosebleeds.

Ken Kercheval

#4. Genuine spiritual movement should forgive and encourage.

Radhanath Swami

#5. The poem in Where Good Swimmers Drown are love poems. But love poems that defy the divisions between emotion and intellect, private and public, life and art, writer and reader. To read Elbe's poems is to discover not only what it means to be in love, but what it means to be alive.

Jesse Lee Kercheval

#6. My dad was a doctor and surgeon. He was the fifth generation of his family to become a doctor.

Ken Kercheval

#7. Being a star and having money do not make for a happy person.

Ken Kercheval

#8. I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.

George McGovern

#9. But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things.

Richard Krajicek

#10. Most corn is combine harvested, which means it's picked and shelled in the field - but that's rough on the corn because the husk is more likely to be scratched or cracked.

Ken Kercheval

#11. I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would give up trying to get there. For the place I really have to get to is a place I must already be at now. Anything that I might reach by climbing a ladder does not interest me.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#12. I've suffered from low self-esteem.

Ken Kercheval

#13. Whatever moisture is left in the popcorn when it gets from harvest to bag to your popper is what's going to determine how well the corn pops.

Ken Kercheval

#14. If love is sex
we were in love.
& if love outlasts
the body, then
I am you,
it is fair to say.

Jesse Lee Kercheval

#15. My doctor found a spot on my lung. He told me it looked like adenocarcinoma, a cancer he attributes to smoking. He didn't need to biopsy it.

Ken Kercheval

#16. This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.

A. N. Wilson

#17. For me, happiness is doing my best and trying to be helpful.

Ken Kercheval

#18. What gives me strength is thinking about my children.

Ken Kercheval