The past can be tamed and controlled.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONCollecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
-
-
Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Weather creates character.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Silence is the garment of light.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
There are no inanimate objects.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON