"Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly Singing about her head, as she rode by."

-- Robert Graves

#Daughter Quotes #Bird Quotes #Singing Quotes

“The true celebration of Christmas is when we ponder afresh the grace of God who became human, entered history through a virgin's womb, and brought redemption to the world.”
“He believed nothing he was told and trusted no one.”
“Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.”
“I always tried to hit the ball back through the box because that is the largest unprotected area.”
“Our audience is all the girls who made Britney a huge star. Those are the girls who bought the book. I didn't read the book at first. I read the script just to see what I would think of the script and I really liked it.”
“Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This is a precarious race straddle that most members of the breakthrough generation seem to reject. Even the most well meaning white Obama supporters seem to take deep satisfaction in this idea. Obama, they insisted, could be raceless, a reasurringly optimistic view of America's deepest burden that ignores countless peices of evidence to the contrary.”

Source : Gwen Ifill (2009). “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama”, p.167, Anchor
“An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.”
“Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion.”

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