Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair. I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in… Lees verder Mitch Albom

Diogenes of Sinope: (Sinope 404 BC – Corinth 323 BC). Greek philosopher from the school of cynics. Diogenes was born the son of a banker in Sinope, a Greek colony on the southern coast of the Black Sea. Initially, Diogenes followed in his father’s footsteps with a career in banking, however, after involvement in a… Lees verder Diogenus of Sinope

Friendships are the family we make – not the one we inherit. I’ve always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family. One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting. It seems that the right of… Lees verder Salman Rushdie

Ernest Alexandre Honoré Coquelin: (16 May 1848 – 8 February 1909). French actor. Also called Coquelin Cadet, to distinguish him from his brother, he was born at Boulogne, and entered the Conservatoire in 1864. He graduated with the first prize in comedy and made his debut in 1867 at the Odéon. The next year he… Lees verder Cadet Coquelin

Nicola Yoon: (Geboren in 1972). Jamaicaans-Amerikaanse auteur. Ze is vooral bekend als schrijfster van de young adult roman Everything, Everything uit 2015, een New York Times bestseller en de basis van de gelijknamige film uit 2017. In 2016 bracht ze The Sun Is Also a Star uit, een roman die werd bewerkt tot een gelijknamige… Lees verder Nicola Yoon

Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken: Also known as Bô Yin Râ. (Aschaffenburg, 25 November 1876 – Massagno, 14 February 1943) German writer and painter. From 1913, he wrote religious-spiritual books under the name Bô Yin Râ, most of which were published in Switzerland. His publications, including his 32-volume main work Hortus Conclusus (Enclosed Garden), were largely published… Lees verder Bo Yin Ra

The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. I saw the spiders marching through the air, swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day in latter August when the hay came creaking to the barn.

Robert Lowell: (Boston, 1 March 1917 — New York, 12 September 1977). Born Robert Traill Spence Lowell, Jr. American poet belonging to the confessional poetry movement. Lowell is considered the father of this movement and is also important because he influenced a number of well-known poets of the 1950s and 1960s, including Anne Sexton, Elizabeth… Lees verder Robert Lowell

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: (November 5, 1850 – October 30, 1919). American author and poet. Her works include the collection Poems of Passion and the poem “Solitude”, which contains the lines “Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.” Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year before… Lees verder Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Alfred Gilbert Aronowitz: (20 May 1928 – 1 August 2005). American rock journalist best known for introducing Bob Dylan to The Beatles in 1964. Aronowitz was born in Bordentown, New Jersey, southeast of Trenton, and graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in journalism in 1950. He was the son of an Orthodox Jewish butcher.… Lees verder Al Aronowitz