"You know every cell in our bodies is completely renewed every seven years, so how can we talk about being the same person? We're absolutely not."

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Cells Quotes #Years Quotes #Body Quotes

“We are recipients of God's choicest blessings. We enjoy an abundance of material things beyond that enjoyed by any other nation in the history of the world; but unless we keep alive a realization that all these blessings come from God and are a part of our great spiritual heritage, they may crumble as ashes in our hands. "In nothing doth man offend God, or against none is his wrath kindled, save those who confess not his hand in all things and obey not his commandments."”
“Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect,”
“Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS.”
“To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and on and on.”

Source : Mary Jo Bang (2007). “Elegy: poems”, Graywolf Pr
“When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.”
“Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.”

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 20 Apr. 1989.
“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”
“I always wanted to tell stories and act.”

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