"Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Train Quotes #Departing Quotes

“Im just the highest energy person I know, and its really weird.”
“I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face.”
“We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.”
“Things have changed very much, several times, since I grew up, and, like everyone in New York except the intellectuals, I have led several lives and I still lead some of them.”
“As a mother, anything to do with my children, whether it's supporting their school or programs that support their education and enrichment. As a wife, anything that my husband is passionate about and helps to support. As a community member, anything that supports the Vail Valley, the place that I call home. As a friend of the founder and true believer in their mission, an organization called First Descents. They provide adventure camps to young adults and adults with cancer or who have survived cancer.”
“If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. Godâ€™s purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.”
“The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.”
“I always say prepare to be a coach to anybody who wants to be a coach. At 24 years of age when I left engineering to become full time in football, I made sure that I was never going back to engineering.”

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