Charles Frederick Menninger famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

  • Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

  • Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.

  • I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!

  • In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone.

  • I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

  • Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

  • I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

  • [What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.

  • The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.