Francis Brett Young famous quotes

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All primitive people are frightened of owls,' said Harley. 'The villagers here are scared to death of the gufo. Birds of ill omen. If they see one, they think they'll die. But they never do. See one, I mean, of course,' he added with a laugh.
-- Francis Brett Young

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The longer one lives, the more mysterious life seems.
-- Francis Brett Young

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An autumn garden has a sadness when the sun is not shining...
-- Francis Brett Young

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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech--but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun....
Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

Francis Brett Young famous quotes

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