Janine di Giovanni famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.
-- Janine di Giovanni

#Easter #Morning #New Life
Human memory is short and terribly fickle.
-- Janine di Giovanni

#Memories #Fickle #Humans
I often think I am a better person because I lived for many years of my life with a flashlight. I have developed skills I did not think were possible - bathing with a cup of water by candlelight, for instance, and writing a story with a headlamp on.
-- Janine di Giovanni

#Writing #Thinking #Years
My role [as a war correspondent] is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless [and] to shine a light in the darkest corners of the world.
-- Janine di Giovanni

#Motivation #War #Inspiration
Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.
-- Janine di Giovanni

#Your Side #People #Way
In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.
-- Janine di Giovanni

#War #Healing #Aftermath

My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.
Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling
Had Christ not risen we could not believe Him to be what He declared Himself when He "made Himself equal with God." But He has risen in the confirmation of all His claims. By it alone, but by it thoroughly, is He manifested as the very Son of God, who has come into the world to reconcile the world to Himself. It is the fundamental fact in the Christian's unwavering confidence in "all the words of this life.
Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh. "Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning, which I doubt," said he. "Why, what's the matter?" "Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it." "Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose. "Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush.
If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.
Because I canâ€™t live without Della. I donâ€™t want to. Sheâ€™s the reason I get up in the mornings - Woods
When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
Well, wherever you go, whatever you do, you're still you. You can change your surroundings, start a new life, but you'll always fall into the same old patterns, make the same kind of friends, commit the same mistakes. The thing you need to change is yourself.
Childbirth calls into question our very existence, requiring an expectant couple to confront not only new life but death, pain, fear and, most of all, change.

Janine di Giovanni famous quotes

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