Brunonia Barry famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is lace in every living thing: the bare branches of winter, the patterns of clouds, the surface of water as it ripples in the breeze.... Even a wild dog's matted fur shows a lacy pattern if you look at it closely enough.
-- Brunonia Barry

#Dog #Nature #Winter
I'll pit my God against your god any day, I say to the Calvinists. It's not their god I'm praying to.... The God I'm praying to is neither male nor female. My God is the one who exists apart from all of men's agendas, the God who takes you away when there is no possible place you can go.
-- Brunonia Barry

#Men #Males #Female
There is no wrong answer. Even so, it is easy to receive wrong results, simply by asking the wrong question.
-- Brunonia Barry

#Asking #Answers #Easy
Sometimes, when you look back, you can point to a time when your world shifts and heads in another direction. In lace reading this is called the â€œstill point.
-- Brunonia Barry

#Reading #Looks #World
A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory, where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough becomes truth.
-- Brunonia Barry

#Memories #Regret #Stories
The Language of Sand has something for everyone: myths, mystery, community, humor, grief, and ultimately healing. I found myself not only rooting for Abigail but for the whole community of Chapel Isle. Block manages to hold sass and heartfelt emotion in perfect equilibrium.
-- Brunonia Barry

#Block #Grief #Healing

Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.
A man and his dog is a sacred relationship. What nature hath put together let no woman put asunder.
I don't know how I'm gonna pick up a bat again. I just need to be away for a bit and play with my dogs.
Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite
I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder. The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
Beauty and inspiration can be found in any natural place of the earth.
One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily, and loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight, and people will untie themselves, as string is unknotted, unfold and yawn and stretch and spread their fingers, unfurl, uncurl like seaweed returned to the sea, and work will be simple and swift as a seagull flying, and play will be casual and quiet as a seagull settling, and the clocks will stop, and no one will wonder or care or notice, and people will smile without reason, even in winter, even in the rain.
It is reported from 'Ubayd ibn 'Umayr (radiAllahu anhu) that he said: "It used to be said when winter came: O people of the Qur`an, the night has become long so you can pray (more) and the day has become short for you to fast."
Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.

Brunonia Barry famous quotes

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