"But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters."

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David Mitchell

#Track Quotes #Figures Quotes #Crosses Quotes

“It always surprised me that I was getting acting work.”
“We forget sometimes that there are saints living among us. When we meet them, we are reminded, not just of the presence of pure divinity right here on earth, but also of our own potential, and of the responsibility we have to try to live up to it, for our own sakes and for the very future of this planet.”
“We were meant to do more than make sure that all of our needs are fulfilled and all our desires are satisfied. We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.”
“The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.”

Source : "Soaring Wings : A Biography of Amelia Earhart". Book by George Palmer Putnam, 1939.
“I give God all the glory. And try to move on. Come home and hug my wife and my children. And thank God for every day that I have with my family.”

Source : "Ex-NBA Star Williams 'Terrified' As Trial Opens". abcnews.go.com. January 16.
“Even though it might appear otherwise from what I've said, I am not a racist. I should not have said what I did because it is not what I believe in my heart.”
“I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money, they weren't going to raise the debt ceiling, and then they went to Washington, D.C., and did exactly that.”

Source : "Freshman 'embarrassed' by rookies" by Jake Sherman, www.politico.com. January 10, 2012.
“In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air.”

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