"This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven."

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Source : FaceBook post by Rick Bragg from May 17, 2013

Rick Bragg

#Baby Quotes #Stars Quotes #Grandma Quotes

“Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.”
“Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It's not always easy, that's for sure. But it's right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal's office.”

Source : Simone Elkeles (2011). “Leaving Paradise”, p.279, North Star Editions, Inc.
“Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.”
“If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.”
“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people stay for awhile, and move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.”
“The burden of the incommunicable.”
“And so when we talk about intangible values remember that they cannot be separated from the others. The conservation of waters, forests, soils, and wildlife are all involved with the conservation of the human spirit. The goal we all strive toward is happiness, contentment, the dignity of the individual, and the good life. This goal will elude us forever if we forget the importance of the intangibles.”
“I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.”

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