"When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching my ripped arms, thinking of nothing, cramming the black honey of summer into my mouth; all day my body accepts what it is. In the dark creeks that run by there is this thick paw of my life darting among the black bells, the leaves; there is this happy tongue."

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Mary Oliver

#Summer Quotes #Running Quotes #Dark Quotes

“People were always asking me who I wanted to tour with, and I always said Jason Aldean or Brad Paisley.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“My music demands something of the listener, it is demanding music. I think that's a good thing. I'm not chiselling anything in stone or serving you any truths. Even to native Norwegian speakers, my lyrics are veiled. I'm asking questions.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Pro-choice and pro-life activists live in different worlds, and the scope of their lives, as both adults and children, fortifies them in their belief that their own views on abortion are the more correct, the more moral, and more reasonable. When added to this is the fact that should 'the other side' win, one group of women will see the very real devaluation of their lives and life resources, it is not surprising that the abortion debate has generated so much heat and so little light.”

Source : Kristin Luker (1985). “Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood”, p.215, Univ of California Press
“The last loud trumpet's wondrous sound, Shall thro' the rending tombs rebound, And wake the nations under ground.”
“Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.”
“Business and human endeavors are systems...we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get solved.”
“You can kid the world, but not your sister.”
“The more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.”

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