"If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled."

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Source : Lloyd Alexander (1967). “Taran Wanderer”, Yearling Books

Lloyd Alexander

#Patterns Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference.”
“I have four sons whom I love dearly. Suppose our lawn needed to be cut. I could say, "Boys, can you see the need? The grass is high. It's above my knees. Soon I will not be able to get to the garage. Don't you see the desperate need?" But in the final analysis, they get out the mower because their father says, "Mow the grass!" World evangelization is an imperative because Jesus said so.”
“The whole city gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one day someone is going to yell, "Cut! Strike it!" and then the stagehands will scurry out and remove the mountains, the movie-star homes, the Hollywood Bowl--everything.”
“I don't especially like to travel, not the way many people do. I know many people that love to go to far-off and different places, and I've never been like that. I seem to get homesick as quickly as a child.”
“Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.”
“To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery ...”
“I worship the ground Paul Ryan walks on.”

Source : "The Ed Show" with Thomas Roberts, www.today.com. May 27, 2011.
“Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.”

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