"This / is the use of trampolines / I will remember, the broken sunlight / Coming through the trees in a strange / Land, and lighting up my rising /Â And falling children, and their friends, /Â And the apples falling, / The new trees rising."

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Source : Gerard Woodward (2012). “The Seacunny”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

Gerard Woodward

#Children Quotes #Fall Quotes #Land Quotes

“Take that one thing you don't like about yourself and more often than not that's the one thing that makes you more special. Whether it's that gap in your teeth, or that mole you never liked, or your skin color.”
“Opportunity is all around us, but we have beliefs and habits that block it.”
“This time her heart would not break, even though it would hurt and hurt for a long time to come. Perhaps for the rest of her life. But it would not break. She had the strength to go on alone.”

Source : Mary Balogh (2010). “A Summer To Remember: Number 2 in series”, p.170, Hachette UK
“"Do you believe in intuition?" "No, but I have a strange feeling that someday I will." People who take cold baths never have rheumatism, but they have cold baths. Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.”
“A winkle is just a bogey with a crash helmet on.”
“Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.”

Source : "Online Extra: A Talk with Pierre Omidyar". Interview with Michelle Conlin, www.bloomberg.com. November 29, 2004.
“Did you know that from the beginning of time the whole purpose of God was to reproduce Himself?...And when we stand up here, brother, you're not looking at Morris Cerullo; you're looking at God. You're looking at Jesus”
“The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.”

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