"A sparrow lay dead on the backseat. She had found her way through a hole in the windscreen, tempted by some seat-sponge for her nest. She never found her way out. No one noticed her panicked car-window appeals. She died on the backseat, with her legs in the air. Like a joke."

-- Arundhati Roy

#Air Quotes #Car Quotes #Legs Quotes

“From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette”
“Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity â€” which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.”
“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.”
“I don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldn't put myself into any organized faith.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Whether you work outside the home or not, never tell them [your children] that being a mommy is your 'job.' Being a mommy is a relationship, not a profession.”
“You're no better than Sharpclaw and Sparrowpelt. They look down their noses at us because we stay loyal to our housefolk as well as our Clan. I thought you were different, Leafstar, but I was wrong”
“I learned how to communicate and articulate myself from ballet. It's just insane to me, when they don't think of that as a part of our education.”
“Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.”

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