Nicholas Dawidoff Quotes

“Berg paid his way with stories.”

“Berg paid his way with stories.”

“Berg was proud of his storytelling to the point where he collected stories about telling stories.”

“There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures”

“I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?”

“If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.”

“This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.”

“What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?”

“We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.”

“If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia.”

“When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.”