Rosie > Rosie's Quotes

“He kept her company, listened patiently when she complained, and always made sure her clothes were thoroughly covered in cat hair. They were family. He was her cat; she was his human. It seemed crazy, but that was enough.”
― Lydia Sherrer, Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Revelations

“It's ironic that it was not until I lost my hearing that I finally found my voice. Sign language saved my soul.”
― Rosie Malezer, Change Your Name and Disappear : A Terrifying True Tale of Survival

“If I hadn't lost my hearing, I wouldn't be where I am now. It forced me to maximize my own potential. I have to be better than the average person to succeed.”
― Lou Ferrigno

“There is no better way of life in the world than that of the Australian. I firmly believe this. The grumbling, growling, cursing, profane, laughing, beer drinking, abusive, loyal-to-his-mates Australian is one of the few free men left on this earth. He fears no one, crawls to no one, bludges on no one, and acknowledges no master. Learn his way. Learn his language. Get yourself accepted as one of him; and you will enter a world that you never dreamed existed. And once you have entered it, you will never leave it.”
― John O'Grady

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller

“But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.”
― Bill Bryson, Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

“Throughout time, we, as cats, have been worshipped by lower beings such as humans. Nothing has changed.”
― Rosie Malezer, Cathood: How to be the perfect Cat

“A sheltered life knows no risk or consequence.”
― Jeremiah Cross, Sanguine Rose

“Your hearing status does not make you a better person. Your humanity does.”
― Rosie Malezer, How to be Deaf

“When we die, we go into the arms of those who remember us.”
― Rosie Malezer, Change Your Name and Disappear: A terrifying true tale of survival

“White supremacy is the societal excrement that fertilizes racial disparities in America. It distorts the reality of historical and present day factors that create the staggering racial inequality that exists today.”
― James A. Barlow, From the Corner to the Corner Office: A Blueprint for Success

“...imagine you’re minding your own business, walking down the mall, looking for the perfect beard comb. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a midget ninja jumps out from behind one of those shiatsu massage chairs and rapid punches you in the stomach and lower back.”
― Philip Rivera, Suburban Luchador: Tales From the Burb Side