"The power of this experience [fatherhood] can never be explained. It is one of those joyful codings that rumbles in the species far below understanding. When it is experienced it makes you one with all men in a way that fills you with warmth and harmony."

-- Kent Nerburn

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“We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.”
“I never have a problem with being black. I have a problem with the easy association of what that means to some people.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“... Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even if it's the worst possible condition, because, if it is, we're finished anyway, whether we go on the journey or not, and it's better to die having made the journey we're been longing for than to be stifled by our longing.”
“Vodka is tasteless going down, but it is memorable coming up.”
“My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.”

Source : "Nightline Playlist: Page McConnell" by Howard L. Rosenberg, abcnews.go.com. January 5, 2008.
“I love hanging out with friends and family, going to the beach or just being a couch potato and binge watching TV shows or watching a good movie.”
“Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.”
“The stresses of high-altitude climbing reveal your true character; they unmask who you really are. You no longer have all the social graces to hide behind, to play roles. You are the essence of what you are.”

Source : David Breashears, Jon Krakauer (2000). “High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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