Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Jessye Norman

Quote by Jessye Norman

“I was given a stethoscope in a child's 'doctor's bag' at about age six and I loved it! One could hear the heart beating through that plastic toy.”

Quote by Jessye Norman

Create image

Author

Jessye Norman
Jessye Norman

Jessye Norman is an American opera singer renowned for her powerful voice and artistic expression. Born on September 15, 1945, she has been active on the international opera stage since the 1960s, performing in a wide range of classic opera roles. more

You May Also Like

“I know you were just trying to help. But I passed the point of help a long time ago. Look, I know about your people and customs, and I know you were raised inside a cage. The last thing you need is to be saddled with a man who can barely walk. Why don't you just go and get your own place and live? I'll be happy to put you on all my accounts. You'll never want for anything. (Adron)I can't do that. (Livia)Why not? (Adron)Because I love you. (Livia)”

PeopleKnowsMenWantLoveNeedsTryingLooksLongI CanHelpingAgeLastsWalksLove YouLong TimeAccountsRaisedWhy NotCustomsCagesLong Time Ago
Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
Create image

“She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only she herself, but all users and makers are accountable for its demise. In her country children have bitten their tongues off and use bullets instead to iterate the voice of speechlessness, of disabled and disabling language, of language adults have abandoned altogether as a device for grappling with meaning, providing guidance, or expressing love.”

LoveChildrenCountryUseAgeDiesLanguageVoiceAdultsTongueConvincedAbsenceEsteemIndifferenceGuidanceDevicesMakersAbandonedUsersProvidingBulletsDisabledDemiseCarelessnessGrapplingExpressing Love
Author:Toni Morrison
Create image

“In New Mexico, he always awoke a young man, not until he arose and began to shave did he realize that he was growing older. His first consciousness was a sense of the light dry wind blowing in through the windows, with the fragrance of hot sun and sage-brush and sweet clover; a wind that made one's body feel light and one's heart cry 'To-day, to-day,' like a child's.”

MenLoveFeelsFirstsHeartChildrenMadeBodyLightAgeYoungRealizingConsciousnessSunGrowingCrySweetWindWindowHotYoung ManDryMexicoDay To DayBrushesSageFragranceGrowing OldGrowing OlderNew MexicoCloversWind BlowingHot Sun
Book:Death Comes for the Archbishop
Create image

“Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, it shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its don't-worry-be-happy concern for grammar-the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved.”

PeopleLoveFeelsMatterAgeLanguageWealthResultsWorryTerribleBlessingApproachConcernSizeShouldersAliensColourMuseumsColonialismVocabularyGrammarExploitsZealSpellingRobbingBaneIncapacityQualmsQualms AboutDon't Worry Be HappyOverabundance
Book:Beatrice and Virgil
Create image

“This skin, this hair, all this outside stuff. It isn't me. It's just my package. It's like the wrapper around the sweet; it isn't the sweet itself. What we really are is all inside the package. All our feelings. All our good moods and bad moods. All our ideas, our cleverness, our love, that's what a person really is. It's called a spirit.”

LovePersonsIdeasFeelingsAgeSpiritStuffSweetHairSkinsMoodOur LovePackagesClevernessBad MoodGood Mood
Book:The Coroner's Lunch
Create image