"But wanderlust is like a pretty girl - you wake up one morning, find she's grown old and decide that either you're going to commit your life or you're going to walk away."

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Source : Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.9, Penguin

Charlie LeDuff

#Girl Quotes #Travel Quotes #Morning Quotes

“I believe that when we treat homosexual people as pariahs and push them outside our communities and churches; when we blame them for who they are; when we deny them our blessing on their commitment to lifelong, faithful relationships, we make them doubt whether they are children of God, made in his image.”

Source : "Stop treating gay people as pariahs, evangelical minister tells church" by Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2013.
“The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they cannot rise themselves save as they succeed in lifting her with whose sins they are weighed.”
“The first thing the communists do when they take over a country is to outlaw cockfighting”
“Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.”

Source : Robin Mckinley (2010). “Pegasus”, p.118, Penguin
“My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . .with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.”
“When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.”
“What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.”
“Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition.”

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