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“Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.”
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“I am repelled by those who voice the word 'nature', without having any trace of it in their hearts.”
Source : Quoted in Edward Lucie-Smith Symbolist Art (1972).
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“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
Source : "The Last Enemy" by Rebecca Sato, www.pbs.org. November 11, 2010.
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“If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.”
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“Ancient poets and sages have called the earth the mother of all things. They could hardly have chosen a more attractive name, or one that was more appropriate. From her lap springs everything that possesses life and motion, everything that flourishes, fades, and has its fated day, and she tirelessly provides material for the countless varied bodies that are created -- and then abandoned -- by the life force in its unending, hidden progress through nature.”
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“It's just me and the Bane. And I'm fighting him because he killed all of those innocent mice and people, and I have to stop him. Not because Sandwich says so but because I say so.”
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“When night falls people become as lonely as snowflakes floating down from a gray city sky. Now and again we fall past a streetlamp and are visible, a brief moment apart, REAL-- we can be seen. We exist. Then we vanish into the gray darkness and the earth draws us to it.”
Source : Erik Fosnes Hansen (1996). “Psalm at Journey's End”, p.160, Macmillan
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“Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way.”