Paul Scherrer quotes

Paul Scherrer quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.”

Source : "The royals are so thick" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2011.
“The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.”
“I forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them in the face, does that come into it somewhere?”

Source : Allison Pearson (2004). “I don't know how she does it: the life of Kate Reddy, working mother”
“I had this idea when I was in the hospital, .. It seems like every year I always have different people come and ask for a Christmas song and it seemed strangely appropriate for me this year because Christmas is the time that I am supposed to be sort of back and up and running and whatnot. So I just wrote a song about returning from this very interesting journey and kind of getting back to normal and getting back to work and my regular life.”
“If you want something to play with go find yourself a toy, baby, my time is too expensive and I'm not a little boy.”
“You're it for me, baby. Just you. You're not going to be your mother. You're special and unique and we're going to get you help. But I will be right by your side the entire time. I'll never leave you. I swear it.”
“What Death protects can't be harmed and baby, you're the only thing I protect - Dank, Predestined”
“I look at my kid, and one part of me wants to keep her as my little baby. But, y'know, the bottom line is she's 18!”
“O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.”
“What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.”

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