Ginny Bowness:
CLASS OF 1974
Henry Wise Wood High SchoolClass of 1974
Calgary, AB
Ginny's Story
Ginny is from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Ginny's schools include Henry Wise Wood High School.
Books Ginny likes include Grizzly Country, Stephen Herrero, Anna Lee Waldo. Movies Ginny likes include Aliens, The Sting, Master And Commander. TV shows Ginny likes include Cougar Town, Game of Thrones, Pride and Prejudice.
One of Ginny's favorite quotes is:"I am a part of all that I have met.-Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. -Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)
Losing one glove / is certainly painful, / but nothing / compared to the pain, / of losing one, / throwing away the other, / and finding / the first one again. -Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)
I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may not complete this last one but I give myself to it. -Rainer Maria Rilke, poet and novelist (1875-1926)
No matter that we may mount on stilts, we still must walk on our own legs. And on the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom. -Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)
The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed. -Gil Bailie, author and lecturer (b. 1944)
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a ...Expand for more
reflection of human frailty. -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)
It is not how old you are, but how you are old. -Jules Renard, writer (1864-1910)
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self. -Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE)
âIn the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.â âDaniel L. Reardon
Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle. -Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
âWhen we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world.â âJohn Muir
Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying. -Christian Furchtegott Gellert
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, / Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, / Sermons in stones, and good in everything. -William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
âAs soon as you're diagnosed with breast cancer, you desperately try to figure out how it could have happened. You analyze your life a thousand times over, rack your brains searching for THE reason, beat your head against the wall, experience endless guilt. All you get is a headache. Drop it! Save your precious energy for your health and wellâbeing. â
Marisa Weiss M.D., president and founder, breast radiation oncologist, Philadelphia, PA".
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