Children Quote by Edwidge Danticat Download Open image ““We’re all carrying our coffins with us every day.” Or “We are all constantly cheating death.”” — Edwidge Danticat ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Children Daughters Death Every day Grief Loss Mothers Mourning
“If on thoughts of death we are fed, Thus, a coffin, became my bed.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“You are despicable and such cowards that you won't even share your dead bodies with the Earth, but put them inside wooden and metal… — Carl Abrahamsson Copy Share Image
“Even though I buried our love in a coffin, it isn’t dead. No, our love is very much alive. Or at least it was… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Those who have died live in coffins while those who live die in waiting for death. Some people wait patiently for death to come,… — Jules Haigler Copy Share Image
“Death does that:It makes everyone feel sentimental when in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“One always dies too soon — or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Medicare rewards doctors far better for doing procedures than for assessing whether they should be done at all.” — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes it up.… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“Instead I dreamt of walking out of the world, of spending all my time inside with no one to talk to, and no one… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part,… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“From her experience working with the weak and the sick, she'd learned that the disease you ignore is the one that kills you, so… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I'm not saying Cubans don't deserve asylum, but if it is a national security issue, there are people who are coming from Cuba on… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
My school was one of the most beautiful places a child can grow up in. You are surrounded by nature - cats, dogs, birds… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls and old gay men together - there's a safety. They make a shield from all of the bad things they've experienced in the world. They make a home together. There are no songs about that. I… — Margaret Cho Copy Share