Quotes
Authors
Alda Merini

"As for me, I used to be a bird with a gentle white womb, someone cut my throat just for laughs, I donâ€™t know. As for me, I used to be a great albatross and whirled over the seas. Someone put an end to my journey, without any charity in the tone of it. But even stretched out on the ground I sing for you now my songs of love."

Source : Alda Merini (2016). “Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini”, p.51, Princeton University Press

Alda Merini

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“Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.”
“My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.”
“You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.”
“'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed.”
“In the twelfth century the Basque fishermen of Biarritz used to hunt whales with deadly efficiency. When the whales sensibly moved away, the Basques chased them further and further, with the consequence that the fishermen of Biarritz discovered America before Columbus did. This is a matter for local pride but on a larger view it is not quite so stunning, since with the possible exception of the Swiss everybody discovered America before Columbus did.”
“Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced.”
“Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.”

Source : Entering the world (M. Odent)
“It's your life, live it your way.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2011.

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