"There's something about rushing water that I can watch for hours and feel as if I need to do nothing more. It's alive in a way that's greater than any description of it..."

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Source : Mark Helprin (2012). “In Sunlight and in Shadow”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Mark Helprin

#Rushing Quotes #Water Quotes #Alive Quotes

“It's interesting for me to do the commentary with the actors because, as a director, you're so in your own world that you see it from your perspective, your issues and what you were trying to do, and then it's really very fun to hear their perspective on how it was to do a particular scene or how they felt, and sometimes, I didn't even know that, at the time.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.”

Source : Caroline Pratt (2014). “I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.”
“My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed and she would share her dreams with me.”
“The people are immensely likableâ€” cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted, and unfailingly obliging. Their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water. They have a society that is prosperous, well ordered, and instinctively egalitarian. The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn't get much better than this.”
“This is a very serious matter, because it is our children who are the prize for this community, they are specifically targeting our children.”
“I'll say this: Google is the best 9-5 anyone could ever get. Awesome environment, I loved my time there, but I grew up with my dream to pursue music full time.”
“The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character - meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India.”

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