"I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree."

-- Georgia O'Keeffe

#Stars Quotes #Flower Quotes #Past Quotes

“You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.”

Source : FaceBook post by Alexander McCall Smith from Jul 15, 2011
“There's no solutions to prevent corruption because it's the same thing as putting soldiers in an occupation in a foreign territory - there's too much that's gonna go wrong. There's too much human behavior that's going to get in the way. So you're gonna have to start thinking about it in a different direction, and the different direction is: what is wrong with society?”

Source : "Rampart Director, Oren Moverman Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.”
“Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?”

Source : Martin E. Marty (1993). “A Cry of Absence: Reflections for the Winter of the Heart”, Harper San Francisco
“Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.”
“It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.”
“England can end the millenium as it started - as the greatest football nation in the world.”
“In this Year of Faith, let us remember that faith is not something we possess, but something we share. Every Christian is an apostle.”

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