"As participants in a mobile culture, our default is to move. God embraces our broken world, and I have no doubt that God can use our movement for good. But I am convinced that we lose something essential to our existence as creatures if we do not recognize our fundamental need for stability. Trees can be transplanted, often with magnificent results. But their default is to stay."

-- Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

#Moving Quotes #Broken Quotes #Tree Quotes

“Milan, for me, is a city of discovery. You can find some amazing gardens behind some great houses; I also love finding beautiful galleries and incredible shops, but you have to explore. And the food is amazing.”
“The truth is our country, our people, our liberties, and our way of life are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists who kill and destroy in the name of religion.”
“I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.”
“Never underestimate a girlâ€™s love for her favorite band. Never think even for a minute, that she wonâ€™t defend them to her death. Because itâ€™s not just the music that makes that band her favorite. Itâ€™s the guys, the gals. Itâ€™s the fans. People whom of which she has interacted with thanks to the band. That band might of saved her life, or just made her smile everyday. That band has never broke her heart and has yet to leave her. No wonder she finds such joy in her music.”
“The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.”

Source : "The Visitor". Book by Sheri S. Tepper, 2002.
“I feel overawed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By unrepeatability within such a quantity. By creatures of nature gathered in herds, droves, species, in which each individual, while subservient to the mass, retains some distinguishing features. A crowd of people, birds, insects, or leaves is a mysterious assemblage of variants of certain prototype. A riddle of nature's abhorrence of exact repetition or inability to produce it. Just as the human hand cannot repeat its own gesture, I invoke this disturbing law, switching my own immobile herds into that rhythm.”
“Every day I try to tell myself that this is going to be fun today. I try to put myself in a great frame of mind before I go out - then I screw it up with the first shot.”
“When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.”

Source : Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.69, Pan Macmillan

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