"Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye- lids curve over chaos My hands where they touch you, create small inhabited islands soon you will be all earth: a known land, a country."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Country Quotes #Eye Quotes #Islands Quotes

“Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.”
“I too am a government.”
“Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.”
“Some of my greatest role models are the young children who ask the right questions - who will sit down and share their concerns. They're not just learning from me - they're educating me. That's what drives me.”

Source : "The Pioneer". Interview with Erik Kancler, www.motherjones.com. April 25, 2005.
“What doesn't bend, breaks.”

Source : Song: Buildings and Bridges, Album: Out of Range
“And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.”
“If God watches over a little sparrow, you know, if he takes care of the birds, a little sparrow. Here I am, one of his children, you know, he got so many of us down here. Human beings that send our faith up and believe. And if he watch over a sparrow, I know he watches over me.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“And thou art terrible--the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine.”

Source : Fitz-Greene Halleck (1827). “Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems”, p.13

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