"It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind."

-- Marian Wright Edelman

#Children Quotes #Promise Quotes #Mankind Quotes

“I never forgot the four years I spent with the Phillies, my September call-ups and my big league Spring Trainings. I never forgot that.”
“I think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind.”
“Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.”
“My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely know the nature of the metaphor when I begin to write, but there is an attentiveness that a writer develops, a sudden alertness that is much like the feel of a fish brushing against a hook.”

Source : "Poetry Questions: Stephen Dobyns" by Rebecca Foresman, www.newyorker.com. April 2, 2012.
“There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.”
“There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.”
“We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.”
“I didn't want to have to call a cab if I went to the supermarket. So I eventually got a bike, just a beach cruiser, and I rode that thing all over town. I rode it everywhere. I rode it in the rain, I rode it as much as I possibly could. Anytime I could afford the independence of the bike, I used the bike.”

Source : "Paul F. Tompkins on how and why he spent 25 years without a driver's license". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. October 10, 2015.

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