Ellen Sussman quotes

“Sometimes we have to run away from ourselves in order to find ourselves.”
-- Ellen Sussman

Source : Ellen Sussman (2011). “French Lessons”, p.137, Hachette UK

#Running Quotes #Order Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Perhaps you're not crazy, but you're very creative.”
-- Ellen Sussman

Source : Ellen Sussman (2011). “French Lessons: A Novel”, p.60, Ballantine Books

#Crazy Quotes #Creative Quotes

“Our parents don't know us... They can't know us. We hide ourselves from them. Once they knew everything about us and in order to escape them we keep out secrets, our private selves.”
-- Ellen Sussman

#Order Quotes #Self Quotes #Parent Quotes

“Why does naming a thing give it so much power?”
-- Ellen Sussman

#Giving Quotes #Doe Quotes

“We don't need to talk. We need to love.”
-- Ellen Sussman

#Needs Quotes

“Sometimes when daughters have a bad-girl mother, they rebel and become good girls. They are constantly embarrassed by me!”
-- Ellen Sussman

#Girl Quotes #Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes

“I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.”

“I really hate it when I can’t score runs from a ball.”

“I used to wanna rap like Jay-Z, Now I feel I could run laps around Jay-Z, Nas ain't seen nothing this nasty, B.I.G. & Pac got it coming when I pass too. You got the mic, I ain't the one you wanna pass to”

“But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council.”

“Order, thou eye of action.”

“In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.”

“In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.”

“What's my favourite food? One you order out.”

“Sometimes you can gradually improve things. But sometimes, they don't work, and you've just got to just say: Let's grind this baby to a halt.”

“Sometimes healing comes after helping someone that is going through the same trauma you went through. Help yourself by helping others.”