Nelly Sachs Quotes

#1. World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire

Nelly Sachs

#2. I'm making good money but I ain't rich. Even if I don't wanna rap I still gotta work. Pride don't feed the babies. I'm going to do whatever it takes. As long as my fingers and toes move Im'ma get money.

Sean Price

#3. When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of its stall, then the fire-breathing union begins anew ...

Nelly Sachs

#4. Sober alkies are often asked: When did you hit rock bottom? but a more informed question might be: How many times did you hit rock bottom?

Craig Ferguson

#5. We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.

Nelly Sachs

#6. Instead of a homeland I hold the metamorphoses of the world.

Nelly Sachs

#7. When sleep enters the body like smoke
and man journeys into the abyss
like an extinguished star that is lighted elsewhere,
then all quarrel ceases,
overworked nag that has tossed the nightmare grip
of its rider.

Nelly Sachs

#8. Bewitched is half of everything.

Nelly Sachs

#9. We mothers rock into the heart of the world the melody of peace.

Nelly Sachs

#10. Let my love show you the way and give you guidance in the moment of need.

Debasish Mridha

#11. When people heckle me, I have the microphone. And the press has the microphone.

Joy Behar

#12. But silence is where victims dwell.

Nelly Sachs

#13. To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.

Nelly Sachs

#14. I can't do much yet, but even if I can do a little to help ... I want to give it all I have! If a person doesn't do anything, they never get any better. Doing one little thing, taking one little step forward ... I gotta believe it will help build a better future!

CLAMP

#15. My emotional investment started when I read the first scene of the actual drama [45 Years]. I can't explain it, there's no logic to it, but the notion of one's youth that somehow comes back but is gone, a man of my age connecting to that timing of life.

Tom Courtenay