Anna Banks famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

My dad always told me that holding a grudge is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die.
-- Anna Banks

#Dad #Swallowing #Poison
Morning tide makes a great companion when you donâ€™t want to be around people. It soothes and comforts and doesn't ask for anything. But the sun does. The higher it gets, the more I am reminded that nothing stops time. There is no escaping it.
-- Anna Banks

#Morning #Escaping #People
I wonder how many tears the ocean has swallowed, how much of the ocean is actually made of tears.
-- Anna Banks

#Ocean #Tears #Wonder
Sure, Iâ€™m gray-shading the line that separates stable and crazy, but the point is, there is a line. And I havenâ€™t completely crossed over to lunatic.
-- Anna Banks

#Crazy #Lines #Gray
I assume these structures are made for siting?
-- Anna Banks

#Assuming #Structure #Made
Sure, I’m gray-shading the line that separates stable and crazy, but the point is, there is a line. And I haven’t completely crossed over to lunatic.
-- Anna Banks

#Crazy #Lines #Gray

I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.
My dad means a lot to me. He's the one who put a football in my hands.
The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up.
Unlike the urban development that I see taking over and swallowing up our precious soil, when we interact with our environment in a way that allows for regeneration and natural spaces, the outcome can be beautiful.
...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.
Fine food is poison. It can be as bitter as antimony and bitter almonds and as repulsive as swallowing live toads. Like the poison the emperor took every day to stop himself being poisoned, fine food must be taken daily until the system becomes immune to its ravages and the taste buds beaten and abused to the point where they not only accept but savour every vile concoction under the sun.
No more humiliation for me, thanks very much. No more swallowing my anger. Honestly, I couldn't manage another mouthful. But it was delicious. Did you make it yourself?
Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows.
Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.
Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish - only bless.

Anna Banks famous quotes

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