Logo
Quote by Geraldine Brooks
My mothers family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elabo

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

Other quotes by Geraldine Brooks

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

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

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

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

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand. – Thomas Aquinas

Category:
Faith

How do I love Tim McGraw? Let me count the ways: I love that hes a country boy with a city sensibility. I love that he refuses to be pegged, and his duet with Nelly proves it. And I really love that he had the brains to marry Faith Hill. – Gayle King

Category:
Faith

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that theres no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die. – Wislawa Szymborska

Category:
Faith

I wasnt with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it. – Thomas S. Monson

Category:
Faith

Random Quotes

Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones. – Author Unknown

Category:
Experience

People in north Michigan are not different at all from people in southern Alabama. Trust me, someone whos spent a lot of time in both places. Theyre all hardworking, simple people. – Kid Rock

Category:
Trust

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, its the government. – Woody Allen

Category:
Government

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel. – Giacomo Casanova

Category:
Time