"In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed."

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Source : 'Germinal' (1931)

George William Russell

#Hero Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.”
“As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.”
“One was a Cartoon Artist with a heart like chiffon and a wit as accidentally malicious as the jab of a pin in a flirt's belt.”

Source : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales”, p.42, The Floating Press
“I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.”
“We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.”
“Football is multigenerational. It used to be about fathers taking their sons. Now we're taking our daughters, too.”
“All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.”

Source : Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane (1988). “A Little House sampler”, Univ of Nebraska Pr
“Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.”

Source : Jeffrey McDaniel (2002). “Splinter Factory”, p.55, Manic D Press

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