"You're like something drawn with the sun's fire, and I can take only little glimpses of you."

-- Kenneth Oppel

#Fire Quotes #Glimpse Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.”
“For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.”
“Oh that I may never loiter on my heavenly journey.”

Source : David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.80
“I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.”
“I don't take gifts from perfect strangers â€” but then, nobody is perfect.”
“I think it's time we recognized the Dark Ages are over. Galileo and Copernicus have been proven right. The world is in fact round; the Earth does revolve around the sun. I believe God gave us intellect to differentiate between imprisoning dogma and sound ethical science, which is what we must do here today.”
“Sometimes you think the whole world is falling, and it's only yourself that's leaning.”

Source : Pearl Bailey (1969). “The raw Pearl”, Pocket
“There is nothing I have to do, nowhere I have to go, and no way I have to be except exactly the way I am being right now.”

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