Quote by Gabrielle Hamilton Download Open image ““I had always wanted to contribute in some way. Leave a little more than I took.”” — Gabrielle Hamilton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I know that I am going away on my own account. I must make the usual effort. I must have something to show for… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you needed to be an outsider to really appreciate how things worked. Otherwise you took it for granted.” — Nathan Lowell Copy Share Image
“I'm just wondering if it's a good thing to resign yourself quite this much to small steps when you could take some big ones.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Finally I was able to see that if I had a contribution I wanted to make, I must do it, despite what others said.… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
“Besides, I have to admit that whatever interest you can get people to take in you doesn’t last very long.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I once believed I'd take whatever piece of him he was willing to give. That was no longer good enough. I wanted it all.” — A.L. Jackson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, good intentions couldn't do a thing except make you feel less alone, and sometimes that was enough.” — Riley Redgate Copy Share Image
“What was it about being told not to do something that just made you want to do it so much more?” — T.A. Grey Copy Share Image
“You wanted more from people sometimes. And sometimes,you wanted more from yourself.” — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“i had to leave i was tired of allowing you to make me feel anything less than whole” — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“There are two things you should never do with your father: learn how to drive and learn how to kill a chicken.” — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
“It became such a recurring experience during this period when I was twenty -- to be starving and afraid of running out of money -- as I wandered from Brussels to Burma and everywhere in between for months on end, that I later came to see it as a part of my training as a cook. I came to see… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share
“For the first time in probably the entire decade that had passed since I had seen or spoken to my own mother, I thought… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I am not their family, and no amount of birthing sons, and cooking dinner and raking leaves or planting the gardens or paying for the plane tickets is going to change that. If I don't come back… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share
“Each housing development has a "country" name - Squirrel Valley, Pine Ridge, Eagle crossing, Deer Path, which has an unkind way of invoking and recalling the very things demolished when building.” — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share
“But it was from him - with his cool, long sideburns and aviator sunglasses, and box of watercolor paints (and artist's paycheck) - from… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I am often slow in catching up to the times, but even so, I still cannot even grip this idea: With nothing more than pitocin in your IV drip, you can sooner control the date and time of the birth of a human being-- the gushing entry into the great blue world of a whole new person-- than you can… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share
How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
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