Memory Quilt Quotes

#1. People in this country, always worrying about how to eat, they pay someone good money to tell them: Eat this, don't eat that. If you don't know how to eat, what else can you know how to do in this world?

Imbolo Mbue

#2. 14Brothers and sisters, we urge you to warn those who are lazy. Encourage those who are timid. Take tender care of those who are weak. Be patient with everyone.

Anonymous

#3. My first memory is of the brightness of light ... light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground ... very large white pillows ...

Georgia O'Keeffe

#4. I'm an orator, a raconteur.

Ron Shock

#5. A woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life.

Kim Chernin

#6. Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.

Paul Bowles

#7. They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.

M. F. Husain

#8. I consider myself an expert on love, sex and health. Without health you can have very little of the other two.

Barbara Cartland

#9. A good autobiography is like a document: a mirror of the age on which people can 'depend.' In a novel, by contrast, it's not the facts that matter, but precisely what you add to the facts.

Imre Kertesz

#10. I found that while life drags on when you're losing, it marches on when you're winning.

Tony Dungy

#11. How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

James Gates Percival