"Living's heavy work, but off to one side, the way we are, it's useless, too. It don't make sense. If I knowed how to climb back on the wheel, I'd do it in a minute. You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road."

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Source : "Tuck Everlasting". Book by Natalie Babbitt, www.npr.org. 1975.

Natalie Babbitt

#Rocks Quotes #Dying Quotes #Useless Quotes

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“man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war.”
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“Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.”

Source : Adam Clarke (1835). “Christian Theology”, p.62
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“I'm on a Mission, that ***** say is Impossible, But when I swing my swords they all choppable, I be the body dropper, the heartbeat stopper, Child educator, plus head amputator.”
“As I've often said, Wisconsin's greatest strength continues to be the dedicated, hardworking people of our state. They go to work everyday, pay their taxes, and raise their kids with good, Midwestern values.”

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