8 Quotes by Bill Holm

It's odd to see pictures of your parents before your own birth, before your nagging presence altered their lives forever.

How naive and foolish the young are to imagine that they understand the loneliness of great age, the outliving of your contemporaries, anyone to whom your century of memory might make any sense.

We all need new ideas, images, and experiences far more than we need new stoves or cars or computers.

You must sit down to speak this language,It is so heavy you can't be polite or chatter in it.For once you have begun a sentence, the whole course of your life is laid out before you"-quoted in "The Geography of Bliss

Don't whine about your poverty and brainless labor. You can read, can't you? Get thee to a library and foment rebellion - in both inner and outer worlds.

I inherited from my father and still nourish the notion that Republicans are those who have acquired enough money, often by inheritance and blind luck, to entertain the opinion that their fellow citizens should work harder and be more grateful to the moneyed class while they refrain from work themselves and sit in clean rooms with folded soft hands examining their bank statements and brokerage reports.

We take too much credit for our effect on the world, whining about our misery and guilt, what others have done or not done to us.

Don’t whine about your poverty and brainless labor. You can read, can’t you? Get thee to a library and foment rebellion – in both inner and outer worlds.