Anita Brookner Quotes

I learned Hebrew from a high school teacher named Mr. Cohen. We would drive down the highway to meet his car, and Jewish boys from these Massachusetts towns would sit in his car and learn the lessons.

I wish I was fitter.

The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.

I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.

I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn't spell it.

The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible.

I think of stress as the creator of cancer and heart attacks, like a tiny little ball you feed. I believe that one of the reasons I've never got ill is that I'm not stressed.

When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.

AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

True health infuses positive energy in the mind, body and spirit; it is a main focus in my life.

First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis.

I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health.

I've always enjoyed poor health.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.

I was this guy who'd been racing around down there, on that field in 1999, running straight over people, scoring tries, winning games, having fun. And I ended up so sick I couldn't even run past a little baby.

What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage.

I study religion because I find it fascinating and problematic. But I struggle with the idea of what religion is, what being religious means. A lot of people assume that if you write about early Christianity, you must be some kind of Sunday-school teacher.

The number one root of all illness, as we know, is stress.

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

Health is worth more than learning

[The Jews] are the people of the Book [ahl' ul-kitab.]