Martha MacIsaac famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath.

  • The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.

  • All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.

  • Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.

  • The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.

  • Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest

  • The power and the potency of music will transcend any one person's opinion about it.

  • Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.

  • My mother's a pretty warm, open person.

  • My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.