Faye Moskowitz famous quotes

For who will testify, who will accurately describe our lives if we do not do it ourselves?
-- Faye Moskowitz

#Our Lives #Ifs

There is something disorderly about the death of a young person. In a universe disturbed by so much over which we have no control, an untimely tragedy rattles the teeth of our already shaken confidence. We want to domesticate death, fight it on our own turf, in familiar rooms with shades drawn evenly, top sheets turned back, and a circle of hushed voices closing in.
-- Faye Moskowitz

#Death #Fighting #Circles

Christmas was a miserable time for a Jewish child in those days, and I still recall the feeling. ... Decades later, I still feel left out at Christmas, but I sing the carols anyway. You might recognize me if you ever heard me. I'm the one who sings, 'La-la, the la-la is born.
-- Faye Moskowitz

#Christmas #Children #Feelings

I still grieve for the words unsaid. Something terrible happens when we stop the mouths of the dying before they are dead. A silence grows up between us then, profounder than the grave. If we force the dying to go speechless, the stone dropped into the well will fall forever before the answering splash is heard.
-- Faye Moskowitz

#Growing Up #Fall #Grieving

My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe.
-- Faye Moskowitz

#Inspirational #Teenage #Wish

Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors.
-- Faye Moskowitz

#Parent #Relief #Survivor

Jewish Christmas' - that's what my gentile friends called Chanukah when I was growing up in Michigan in the thirties and forties. Anachronistic, yes, but they had a point. Observing the dietary laws of separating milk and meat dishes was far easier for the handful of Jewish families in our little town than getting through December without mixing the two holidays.
-- Faye Moskowitz

#Christmas #Growing Up #Holiday

The gospel is meant to control and govern everything in our lives.

For who will testify, who will accurately describe our lives if we do not do it ourselves?

Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.

We could all do with a bit more joy in our lives couldn't we? The wonderful thing is that when we start spreading joy, we begin to actually experience more joy in our lives too!

I'm interested in music that happens now and that relates to our lives now.

The more spiritually aware we are, the more harmonious and fulfilling are our lives.

My greatest day is yet to come. Of all the things that I've accomplished, my greatest day is yet to come. But it will never come if I don't pursue it.

Adam Carolla is like Hitler if Hitler wasn’t funny.

Someone can only be vampiric if you allow it.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.