Laura Van Den Berg Quotes

#1. Songs just spring into my head. Silly, isn't it. Sometimes old Goody Stickle says that it's Mossflower singing through me. Now and then she'll say it's a sight of season the hasn't yet shone
upon.
-Gonff

Brian Jacques

#2. Winds shake the leaves and for a moment I smell smoke. I concentrate on the scent, but it vanishes into the aroma of rain and tree bark, the way one life can collapse into another and different people can stir within the same body, like bats thrashing inside a secret hollow.

Laura Van Den Berg

#3. Hunger is a people-made phenomenon, so the central issue is power: the power of those who make the decisions about what is grown and who, or what, it's grown for.

Frances Moore Lappe

#4. I like having a job where I get to wear a mask all day.

Laura Van Den Berg

#5. Enhancing a woman's silhouette and enhancing a woman's beauty - both contribute to enhancing her confidence, so they're synonymous, really.

L'Wren Scott

#6. Is there any greater mystery than the separateness of each person?

Laura Van Den Berg

#7. The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us; it is our own in a way that nothing else in life is. In a word, we are our past; we do not cling to it, it clings to us.

Grace King

#8. Hey, ya'll,can we go?" Leah asked. "The cute guys are gonna be taken by the time we get there."
"No,they won't be," Sam said,"Because you'll be ariving with them.

Rachel Hawthorne

#9. Either they're still naive, or stupid.

Toba Beta

#10. The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

Walter Benjamin

#11. Probably there are no longer any societies in which the best people are attracted to civic duties.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#12. I began to learn a lot of chords and rhythms. It was a bit boring at the time but came in very handy later on.

Alvin Lee