Quotations

"In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt."

— Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor, born 1901

"We must move from asking God to take care of the things that are breaking our hearts, to praying about the things that are breaking His heart."

— Margaret Gibb, American pastor

"Work is love made visible."

— Khalil Gibran, Lebanese-American poet, born 1883

"In the autumn I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. And when April returned and spring came to wed the earth, there grew in my garden beautiful flowers unlike all other flowers. And my neighbors came to behold them, and they all said to me, "when autumn comes again, at seeding time, will you not give the seeds of these flowers that we may have them in our gardens?"

— Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American poet, born 1883

"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."

— Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American poet, born 1883

"If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?"

— Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese American poet, born 1883

"Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina."

— Althea Gibson, American tennis player, born 2003

"There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them."

— Andre Gide, French author, born 1869

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."

— Andre Gide, French author, born 1869

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

— Andre Gide, French author, born 1869

"We think the fire eats the wood. We are wrong. The wood reaches out to the flame. The fire licks at what the wood harbors, and the wood gives itself away to that intimacy, the manner in which we and the world meet each new day."

— Jack Gilbert, American poet, born 1925

"I ask myself what is the sound of women? What is the word for that still thing I have hunted inside them for so long? Deep inside the avalanche of joy, the thing deeper in the dark, and deeper still in the bed where we are lost. Deeper, deeper down where a woman's heart is holding its breath, where something very far away in that body is becoming something we don't have a name for."

— Jack Gilbert, American poet, born 1925

"We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars."

— Jack Gilbert, American poet, born 1925

"Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself."

— Eric Gill, English typeface designer, born 1882