Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger quotes

“I want to see that our older people still feel useful, and our younger people feel engaged in our wider society, and I want to feel that we can bond people from disparate backgrounds, ages and communities together in a greater project, which they get engaged in for the sake of others. Volunteering, in all sorts of ways, seems to me likely to be able to achieve some of that”
-- Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger

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“Judaism tells us in many ways how to listen and say 'Hinneni', I am here.”
-- Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger

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“As for the bitter herbs.... To see everyone with tears coursing down their faces, laughing and gasping at the same time, is fun and also makes the point — bitter herbs must be really bitter to experience the suffering...”
-- Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger

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“Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.11, Courier Corporation

“But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame's to share. Be good to the lad who loves you true, And the soul that was born to die for you; And whistle and I'll be there.”

“It was like she'd become the sun, and I started revolving around her. She was my center.”

“The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.”

“Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years, mutates, some parts are sharpened, others dropped, and there is often debate about what really happened. But even with these different sides of the same story, there is still agreement that this is the family story. And in the absence of other narratives, it becomes the flagpole that the family hangs its identity from.”

Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir”, p.93, Granta Books

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”

“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

“Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.”

“The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.64, Delphi Classics

“Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.”