Quotes About Oma

#1. Oma says, when we were put on earth a really long time ago, each person came with a plant to heal all the troubles that come later ... We've got Indian balsam, sage, wild rose. We've got juniper berries and honeysuckle. All of them do something different inside, heal things.

J.J. Brown

#2. Sometimes a butterfly is not just a butterfly. This is what Oma taught me. You know the worst thing I learned from her? You can be a monster and not even know you are one. They look like us. They think they are us. But really, they've got a monster hiding inside.

Jennifer McMahon

#3. As Kate had told her Oma the night before, there was no society more viciously controlled by rumor than your local police force.

Karin Slaughter

#4. Nobody cared about Oma Kristel, about the way she had tried to keep herself attractive long after Youth had packed its bags and moved out of the aging tenement, about the way she always had some little gift for me, a sample bottle of unsuitable scent or a brooch made of sparkly paste.

Helen Grant

#5. You don't need to explain. This is your house too-you can go where you want," I reply. I smile as best as I can. "Except my room, of course."
"Why, you'll stab me with a kitchen knife if I do?" she jokes as I set the knife down onto Oma March's bedside table.
"Maybe," I answer.

Jackson Pearce

#6. Sunlight and shade,' his oma had commented once. Jathan liked that, mostly because shade meant that even though things were dim for a time, the sun was still there, just on the other side of the barrier.

Tricia Goyer

#7. New taxes are so unpopular that most 'social' handout schemes are originally enacted without enough increased taxation to pay for them. The result is chronic government deficits, paid for by the issuance of additional paper money.

Henry Hazlitt

#8. It is like trying to describe the ocean to a fish in a pond. It has no concept of what it is.

Brett Jones

#9. What has 32 legs and 1 tooth?'
What?' we all asked.
A West Virginia unemployment line.

Stephen Chbosky

#10. As an american, you're born aiming so high - boys want to play in the major leagues, girls want to be princesses. We're cultivating little champions. It's like the land of little champions.

Steven Conrad

#11. I had nothing to offer her. I was illness, instability, everything she wanted to get away from.

Donna Tartt

#12. I felt like I'd been licked by a hungry, dangerous lion. It felt fucking wonderful.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#13. My entire career stands on the strong pillars of women-oriented films. This stems from the fact that I am sensitive to the entire aura and mystique of a woman and womanhood.

Madhur Bhandarkar

#14. There are moments in life where it gets so hectic that time becomes a blur. Keep calm and never give up.

John Cena

#15. Whether I'm unduly sensitive to this pain because I'm a princess - could the whole world be the pea under my mattress? - I don't know, but because I'm a princess, I might be able to do something to help lessen humanity's pain.

Tom Robbins

#16. Cast fear forever from your heart. God's love protects the sparrow: surely He is near His children who rely on His faithfulness!

Frances J Roberts