Rivka Quotes

#1. My mother's parents, Bernard and Rivka Levine, were from Russia and also immigrated to New York City. My mother, Rose, was the elder of their two daughters. My maternal grandmother's family included several scholars and professionals.

Robert Lefkowitz

#2. You have to believe in your authority if you want anyone else to," Rivka commented.

Shira Glassman

#3. Haven't we all been hurt? Don't you think it takes courage to be happy, to feel, to love? Don't you think it costs us all?
- Rivka

Carol Matas

#4. Who is this brave woman," he said softly between gasps, "who has pierced my heart?" Rivka smiled, at peace, and held him. She was still wearing her sword.

Shira Glassman

#5. Comedians are the nearest to suicide.

Lawrence Durrell

#6. The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.

Dorothy Allison

#7. I don't know if math is real in the sense that it's woven into the fabric of the cosmos, or if it's something that we invent and impose upon it. I don't know.

Rivka Galchen

#8. I had also once come across a phrase about a book "lying like a poleaxed wildebeest in the middle of my life." It was my life that was lying in the middle of my life like that, like a poleaxed wildebeest.

Rivka Galchen

#9. I was signed when I was 19 years old, in 1980. I went to Germany and France. Seeing the world at that time was just an awesome experience for a teenager.

Kurtis Blow

#10. When I was growing up, no one could get away with telling me I couldn't do something "because you're a girl." In fact, if someone wanted me not to do something, that was the worst thing they could say: It practically guaranteed I'd run out and try to do it.

Rivka Solomon

#11. I had considered envying men before
I pretend to envy things like their higher incidence of ungrounded confidence and monomania
but I don't really envy those things, and I'm not sure I even believe in them
but this, the covert-baby-having thing, was the first real thing.

Rivka Galchen

#12. It's hard to say that something is legitimate when a whole portion of the country can't vote and doesn't vote.

John F. Kerry

#13. I am not the worst thing that can happen to you, but I will be the last. ~Caesar~ The Goodbye Man.

A. Giannoccaro

#14. To date, most things that I've seen use the internet as a delivery vehicle for old style teaching. We're taking steps in the direction - it'll be a long, iterative process - to create new kinds of educational experiences by using this new tool of the internet.

Rivka Galchen

#15. It is the best part of the night. The classic interactive lines are 'Where are you from? What do you do for a living?' I almost always get something interesting.

Paula Poundstone

#16. I'm not one of these people who are disheartened that the universe is expanding. But as news and data breed and the crowded channels grow ever noisier, I do feel that the space is ever increasing between me and it, whatever it might be.

Rivka Galchen

#17. Teach the heart not to give way to proud emotions and arrogant thinking; bring the mind to heart-soothing solutions that make it possible to control oneself gently and wisely.

Tariq Ramadan

#18. It's not what they think of me that matters - but what I think of them.

Queen Victoria

#19. I'm interested in [meteorology], but I'm more interested in gross misappropriations of the authoritative language of science. It feels rife with clarity, and yet you don't understand what it means. And I think that's beautiful.

Rivka Galchen

#20. It's true what they say, that a baby gives you a reason to live. But also, a baby is a reason that it is not permissible to die. There are days when this does not feel good.

Rivka Galchen

#21. Even the most normal person, if placed in a highly abnormal situation, can be mistakenly perceived as the source of abnormality of the person/circumstance aggregate

Rivka Galchen

#22. You'll never get over Ilan. And that will one day horrify you. But soon enough you'll settle on a replacement object for all that love of yours, which does you about as much good as a life jacket in a train wreck.

Rivka Galchen

#23. It's important to avoid mirrors if one is unprepared to accept their daily news, and I think, in something as insignificantly devastating as appearance, denial is more socially constructive than despondency. Not that there's anything especially wrong with me
just the usual.

Rivka Galchen

#24. The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be?

Rivka Galchen

#25. I was brought up in a Christian home in Australia with a father who was very bold about his faith.

Ken Ham

#26. Do the best you can, with what you can, while you can, and success in inevitable.

Steve Maraboli

#27. Often times in physics we want to talk about empty space as a first step toward nothingness, but nothingness is far more profound than empty space. Nothingness is the absence of everything including space itself.

Rivka Galchen

#28. If a story seems too random, or perhaps too brilliant, for a "madman" to have conceived of it himself, then consider that the "author" might be reality and the "madman" just the reader. After all, only reality can escape the limits of our imagination.

Rivka Galchen

#29. Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'

David Cassidy

#30. He is my unicorn, though ... That's how I felt falling in love with him, as if I'd found a creature of myth.

Rivka Galchen

#31. Now it seems there are many more varieties of 'normal' family.

Rivka Galchen

#32. Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.

Julianna Baggott

#33. I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.

Rivka Galchen

#34. But one day I woke up and heard myself saying, I am a fork being used to eat cereal. I am not a spoon. I am a fork. And I can't help people eat cereal any longer.

Rivka Galchen

#35. My books rustled by like a military of ducks. My mother had never liked my books. She'd said they kept me from real life, by which I think she meant men, or money, or both. Always accusing things of precisely the crimes they hadn't committed.
(From the short story: Once an Empire)

Rivka Galchen

#36. Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

Rivka Galchen

#37. The room was too much there. I could feel the color of the wallpaper
burgundy
invading.

Rivka Galchen

#38. No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.

William O. Douglas