Being Quote by Vera Lynn

Growing up in Ireland, when my family received important news, good or bad, we would boil water and make tea. It was the first…

— Roma Downey

All the times, all the very many times, I had been forced to thwart and stifle my own nature seemed to gather together then,…

— Geraldine Brooks

What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?

— Alfred Adler

When I was 11 years old, I got very sick and slipped into a vegetative state for four years and was pretty much written…

— Victoria Arlen

Until I was 16 or 17, we had no water. My mother had to cook water in a kettle, and once a week I…

— Udo Kier

Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.

— May Sarton

I had a mild case of polio - not enough to put me in an iron lung, but enough to keep me bedridden for…

— Robert Redford

I've had a surprising number of near-death experiences: I was nearly blown up by a landmine in Sudan; I was stranded on the Zambezi…

— Sandi Toksvig

“IN EUROPE, I vomited into small buckets and brushed my teeth repeatedly with chalky British toothpaste. I lay prone on the bathroom floors of…

— E. Lockhart

I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as…

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

I was a really sick kid. I developed epilepsy when I was eight years old, and I would have violent seizures, and I would…

— Rick Harrison

I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

— Diogenes