Carol Birch famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Itâ€™s one of the things I love about the sea, the way you can see weather afar. Itâ€™s like looking at the future.
-- Carol Birch

#Sea #Weather #Afar
Storytelling strengthens the imagination. To imagine is to envision, to see with the inward eye. This ability to imagine is the basis of all creativity. Creativity is being able to see beyond what is readily apparent. It is seeing a new answer to an old problem.
-- Carol Birch

#Creativity #Eye #Imagination
It was the first smile of my life. Of course, that is a ridiculous thing to say; I had been smiled at often, the big man had smiled at me not a minute since. And yet I say: it was the first smile, because it was the first that ever went straight into me like a needle too thin to be seen.
-- Carol Birch

#Smile #Men #Firsts
There's no way out of this, it's stark: live or die. Every given moment a bubble that bursts. Step on, from one to the next, ever onwards, a rainbow of stepping stones, each bursting softly as your foot touches and passes on. Till one step finds only empty air. Till that step, live.
-- Carol Birch

#Air #Feet #Rainbow
Mr. Jamrach led me through the lobby and into the menagerie. The first was a parrot room, a fearsome screaming place of mad round eyes, crimson breasts that beat against bars, wings that flapped against their neighbours, blood red, royal blue, gypsy yellow, grass green. The birds were crammed along perches. Macaws hung upside down here and there, batting their white eyes, and small green parrots flittered above our heads in drifts. A hot of cockatoos looked down from on high over the shrill madness, high crested, creamy breasted. The screeching was like laughter in hell.
-- Carol Birch

#Laughter #Eye #Yellow
It’s one of the things I love about the sea, the way you can see weather afar. It’s like looking at the future.
-- Carol Birch

#Sea #Weather #Things I Love

I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.
Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.
A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relaxâ€“and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind.
We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the state of the skies and the appearance of our dwellings can never on their own underwrite our joy nor condemn us to misery.
Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.
In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like foam or sand.
In friendship's fragrant garden, There are flowers of every hue. Each with its own fair beauty And its gift of joy for you. Friendship's Garden If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather.
Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.
I should talk to him I know I should talk to him. But I do not talk to him. I watch after him from afar and love him.
I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home.

Carol Birch famous quotes

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