David Ebershoff famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Last year when my grandma fell and broke her hip she couldn't paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa started doing it for her, even after he fell and broke his hip, too. For me, that's love.
-- David Ebershoff

#Grandma #Years #Grandpa
I know someone loves me from how they say my name. Like with my mom and dad, when they say "Benjamin" it's like my name is safe in their mouth.
-- David Ebershoff

#Mom #Dad #Names
I trust you have seen the ocean. If you have, then you have witnessed the divine. How barren the ground is in comparison! If I could count the hours I have spent staring out at it! And yet those hours never feel lost. I cannot imagine how else I could refill them were I given a second chance.
-- David Ebershoff

#Ocean #Second Chance #Imagine
I must say a few words about memory. It is full of holes. If you were to lay it out upon a table, it would resemble a scrap of lace. I am a lover of history . . . [but] history has one flaw. It is a subjective art, no less so than poetry or music. . . . The historian writes a truth. The memoirist writes a truth. The novelist writes a truth. And so on. My mother, we both know, wrote a truth in The 19th Wifeâ€“ a truth that corresponded to her memory and desires. It is not the truth, certainly not. But a truth, yes . . . Her book is a fact. It remains so, even if it is snowflaked with holes.
-- David Ebershoff

#Mother #Art #Memories
Isn't it interesting what a stranger can offer? A little wisdom, a little mercy, a little love.
-- David Ebershoff

#Interesting #Littles #Stranger
The agony of martyrdom is almost too much to bear. In the early hours, when the loss is fresh, there is no comfort in knowing Glory will live on. We speak of the martyrs in History but we cannot know the actual pain they suffered in their final living hours. They enter the realm of the mythic, but we must never forget these were men like ourselves. When their flesh is torn, they cry out. They suffer as you or I would suffer, although more bravely. Remember Christ. Although I am now an enemy to Joseph's legacy, I shudder when recalling his pain.
-- David Ebershoff

#Pain #Loss #Men

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
I hope to be acting until I'm playing the role of Grandma, and I'd like to branch out in film - producing, directing, all of it. I'll sleep when no one wants to hire me!
I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season.
I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sure, she was a council woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job.
Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy about him.
Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.
A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
I'm going to be your grandpa! / I have the biggest smile. / I've been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while.
Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.
So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.

David Ebershoff famous quotes

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