"The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree I passed the farms that made it Through the last days of the century And I knew that I was going to learn again Again, in this less hazy light I saw the fields beyond the fields The fields beyond the field"

-- Dar Williams

#Summer Quotes #Goodbye Quotes #School Quotes

“[The Christmas story] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount which still remains as the ultimate basis ... of the belief of free men of good will everywhere.”
“Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.”
“I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.”
“I am absolutely intrigued by life, and I really want to hold onto it.”
“Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son, Do not weep. War is kind.”

Source : Stephen Crane (1899). “War Is Kind”, p.4, Library of Alexandria
“No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.”
“We all know that election reform takes time. That's because those who have benefited from the system are the ones who fight hardest to preserve it. So if we're going to succeed, we need an independent coalition of citizens who believe in reform, who believe that our election laws should treat every voter equally, who believe that low levels of competition and participation are not healthy for democracy. The Independence Party is helping to build that coalition and I am happy to join you in doing so.”
“There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.”

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