"You can't replace a tree anyway. Like people, you don't know how big they were till they're gone."

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Source : George Ella Lyon (2010). “Borrowed Children”, p.82, University Press of Kentucky

George Ella Lyon

#People Quotes #Tree Quotes #Gone Quotes

“We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.”
“It is, of course, a luxury to create art and, on top of this, to insist on expressing one's own artistic opinion. Nothing is more luxurious than this. It is a game and a good game, at least for me; one of the few games which make life, difficult and depressing as it is sometimes, a little more interesting.”

Source : Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.304, University of Chicago Press
“In the end, like the Almighty Himself, we make everything in our image, for want of a more reliable model; our artifacts tell more about ourselves than our confessions.”
“I once got sacked for laughing ... mind you, I was driving a hearse at the time.”

Source : "Bernard Manning has his last laugh" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2007.
“Levity, you need levity to feel anything. You need to laugh before you cry. I think films that take themselves too seriously without any levity are missing an important ingredient to the potential emotional impact of their stories.”
“I was always an album guy, not a greatest hits kind of guy, not so much a radio guy. I'm not saying one is better than the other but... It was like reading a novel but shorter than that. You go into a world for an hour and you absorb yourself into it rather than just passively listening and flipping through this and that.”
“Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers.”
“Rush Limbaugh is saying he never took Trump seriously in the first place.”

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