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

There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us. – 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

Theres just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you cant know it all, and thats where imagination can work. – Geraldine Brooks

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

A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations. – Kathie Lee Gifford

Category:
Fear

I play with a fear of letting people down. Thats what motivates me. – Jonny Wilkinson

Category:
Fear

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. – Khalil Gibran

Category:
Fear

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear. – Alfred Eisenstaedt

Category:
Fear

Random Quotes

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

Category:
good

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. – Steven Pinker

Category:
Poetry

There are women who do not like to cause suffering to many men at a time, and who prefer to concentrate on one man: These are the faithful women. – Alfred Capus

Category:
Women

To keep green, then, the memory of the Exodus was for the Israelite not only to keep his gratitude to his Divine Redeemer ever fresh, but to ratify again and again his covenant with his religion. – Morris Joseph, “Passover,” Judaism as Creed and Life

Category:
Passover