"People don’t fear the wind until it fells a tree. Then, they say it’s too much."

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Source : Sefi Atta (2012). “Everything Good Will Come”, p.73, Interlink Publishing

Sefi Atta

#Wind Quotes #People Quotes #Tree Quotes

“We are individual designs in the fabric of life. We have our own integrity, but simultaneously we are part of the fabric, connected to and defined by the whole. Community is the human dimension of that fabric.”
“I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music.”

Source : Marilyn Horne, Jane Scovell (1983). “Marilyn Horne, my life”, Scribner
“From the Chinese perspective, Korea ranks about third or fourth in terms of trading volume and about third in terms of investment.”
“I never knew what I wanted, except that it was something I hadn't seen before.”

Source : "Robert Altman: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“Baseball can build you up to the sky one day and the next day you have to climb a stepladder to look up at a snake.”
“The dead walk among us.”
“I always want to encourage young artists. As the budgets get smaller, that might provide an opening for younger artists and more experimentation. Budgets had gotten quite large for art, as they had for architecture. I'm not going to cut back. The minute someone walks through my door, I go, "That's my thing and you got to let me do it."”
“Women have a right, I believe, to do whatever they want as long as they don't break the law.”

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