Tove Jansson Quotes

When one's dead, one's dead... This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad?

Tove Jansson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: finnish
  • Birth: August 9, 1914 - June 27, 2001

Topics

SadTimeTreesThinkGrowYou

I take my religion seriously.

Jim Inhofe

ReligionSeriouslyTake

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.

Jim Ramstad

WarBattleFlightNeverHeroes

We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold.

Joe Lonsdale

ProgressAdaptLivingRisingAbove

Going out on a stage publicly and not knowing how people are going to react to you - once I experienced that, it made me feel much more comfortable about going into a scene.

Joaquin Phoenix

PeopleMeFeelNot KnowingYouMore

Because of our excessive touring and not giving up, it wasn't until 'Toys' came out that 'Dream On' really caught on. And then, of course, 'Walk This Way' crept up after that. Things went our way after that.

Joey Kramer

WalkGivingDreamGiving UpWayOut

This planet seems to be in such sorry shape. And I can't ever think about the rest of the universe without coming back home and thinking what the implications for life here would be if we were to really have some definitive proof of extraterrestrial life.

Ann Druyan

LifeHomeSorryRestThinkThinking

Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.

Andy Stanley

LeadershipJourneyTimeChallengeUs

What a profound privilege to go from one who took the oath from a judge to one who now is in the position to administer the oath as a judge.

Sri Srinivasan

JudgeGoNowPrivilegeProfoundWho

In some of the great cities of Europe - Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels - tourists bored with life above ground can descend below. All these cities have sewer museums and tours, and all expose their underbelly willingly to the curious. But not London, arguably the home of the most splendid sewer network in Europe.

Rose George

LifeHomeGreatCuriousParisBored

It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.

Jonah Peretti

LifeYouPersonTrueMoreWrite

For me, I skate as masculine as I can. I'm not a big strong guy. I'm not interested in fighting or throwing punches or balling my hands in fists all day. I'm not interested in guns, I'm not interested in football or stereotypically masculine things, so I'm going to skate in a fashion that is manly for Johnny Weir.

Johnny Weir

DayFootballMeFashionStrongBig

I got my first acting role because I was a singer.

Christian Kane

ActingFirstSingerBecauseRole

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