Logo
Quote by Geraldine Brooks
The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer

The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow. – Geraldine Brooks

Other quotes by Geraldine Brooks

My mothers family were full-on Irish Catholics – faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over womens rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old. – Geraldine Brooks

Category:
Faith
Author
Geraldine Brooks
Read Quote

September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage. – Geraldine Brooks

Category:
Courage
Author
Geraldine Brooks
Read Quote

You cant write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. Im very interested in what religion does to us – its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence. – Geraldine Brooks

Category:
Religion
Author
Geraldine Brooks
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Fear
category

If you want to conquer fear, dont sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. – Dale Carnegie

Category:
Fear

You always fear when youre making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson. – Christina Ricci

Category:
Fear

When you say fear of the unknown, that is the definition of fear fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and its genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because were not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe. – M. Night Shyamalan

Category:
Fear

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. – Susan Sontag

Category:
Fear

Random Quotes

Gods finger touched him, and he slept. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

Category:
God

Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. Its just all about business. – will.i.am

Category:
Business

If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication. – Richard Rosen

Category:
communication

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them? – Jean Baudrillard

Category:
Money