A.S.A. Harrison Quotes

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.

It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.

In spite of what anyone says it’s women who make the rules.

We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days – our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.

You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.

Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.

Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.

Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.

Insanity is a lack of proportion.

to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.

I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.

Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.

I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.

the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.

Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.

What you desire you call into being.

The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.

Silence is the garment of light.

The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. ... Is this true?

Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn't care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.

One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.

Desire creates its own object.

Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

my love of water ... is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position - I enter a fugue state - but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).

Weather creates character.

The past is a sorry country.

The past can be tamed and controlled.

In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.

There are no inanimate objects.

the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.

If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.

Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.

In memory Venice is always magic.

Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.

Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.

All our loves are contained in all our other loves.

It was a very odd transition I guess because I didn't really intend for it to happen; it wasn't a goal of mine to end up in Hollywood and do anything other than sportscasting.

I started [in television] as a local sportscaster in Oklahoma City and that will always be my love. It's kind of what I live for.

My kids have never known me not working on The Bachelor. But they've lived in Paris and Italy and been to Hawaii and Bora-Bora with me, and it's incredible to me that they've had these experiences.

What is life, but the gentle effacement of a tree shedding its leaves?

The ultimate priority of humanity should not be to savour the power given to us, but rather to account for the according responsibility.