"And in this moment, I realize one reason it's so great to have a best friend is sometimes, like right now, Cal and I are thinking the very same thing."

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Source : Kimberly Willis Holt (2011). “When Zachary Beaver Came to Town”, p.200, Macmillan

Kimberly Willis Holt

#Thinking Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Realizing Quotes

“One of the hardest things in life to realize is that the person you love could never love you like you love them.”
“I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism.”
“Zen, in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom. By making us drink right from the fountain of life it liberates us from all the yokes under which we finite beings are usually suffering in this world.”
“To depend partly upon Christ's righteousness and partly upon our own, is to set one foot upon a. rock and another in the quicksands. Christ will either be to us all in all in point of righteousness, or else nothing at all.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 541, 1895.
“I am never needlessly obscure I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.”
“Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.”
“The path to a better future goes directly through our public schools. I have nothing against private schools, parochial schools and home schooling, and I think that parents with the means and inclination should choose whatever they believe is best for their children. But those choices cannot compete, and cannot come at the expense of what has been -- and what must always be -- the great equalizer in our society, a free and equal public education.”

Source : Howard Dean's speech on the Future of the Democratic Party at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., www.c-span.org. December 8, 2004.
“It's tough getting older. You start falling apart, you know? My gums are starting to recede now. You can't tell tonight, though, 'cause I comb them forward.”

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