"Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy; they don't have to fret about food and drink. And you can be sure that they have black angels to do the heavy work like laundering the clouds or sweeping the rain and cleaning the sun after a storm, while the white angels sing like nightingales all day long or blow in those little trumpets like they show in the pictures we see in church."

-- Jacques Roumain

#Rain Quotes #Angel Quotes #Blow Quotes

“I will admit he is unusual, but that is perhaps the closest I could come to complimenting him.”

Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.8, Granta Books
“What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better.”
“My biggest fear is looking weak, girly, and pathetic.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I believe it's our responsibility as citizens to get in there and not accept the constant failure of prisons to deal with racism, lack of privilege, and impoverishment - not accept any of that. Just get in there!”

Source : Interview with Barbara Stahura, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2003.
“Think well. Speak well. Do well. These three things, through the mercy of God, will make a man go to Heaven.”
“So if we look at progress, or evolution, or we look at accomplishment in our life, the key is to be continually moving on, expanding and growing, clarifying, developing and maturing. The opposite would be getting stuck, staying stuck, so there's no maturing, no developing, no accomplishing, no movement.”

Source : Dennis Genpo Merzel (2007). “Big Mind, Big Heart: Finding Your Way”, Big Mind Pub
“You cannot appreciate the beauty of the sky at night without these five shining lights.”
“Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing.”

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