"Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept."

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Source : Lucille Clifton (1976). “Generations: a memoir”, Random House (NY)

Lucille Clifton

#Life Quotes #Fall Quotes #Way Quotes

“Wisdom is the daughter of experience”
“We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.”
“If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.”
“The making of money, the accumulation of material power, is not all there is to living...and the man who misses this truth misses the greatest joy and satisfaction that can come into his life -- service for others.”
“But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.”
“I think when you write songs, you write about people... People are the source of my material. And London is a wonderful place to be for people. So, the next time you're sitting in a park somewhere, and you see someone like me looking at you, don't phone the police. I'm just writing”
“I am not a global warming sceptic. I accept that rising human-caused CO2 from fossil sources could 'change the climate'. The basic physics is there to support this view. But where is the evidence that the putative change would be large or damaging?”
“Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty.”

Source : Rally for the Ten Commandments, Hillsdale, Michigan, www.ontheissues.org. February 7, 2004.

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