"I think what you notice most when you havenâ€™t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories."

-- Mitch Albom

#Memories Quotes #Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than negotiate with the teachers' unions and the trial lawyers and the various leftist interest groups, we intend to break them.”

Source : "Grover Norquist: The Soul of the New Machine" by Michael Scherer, www.motherjones.com. January 2004.
“I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that I have nothing now or in the future to be ashamed of in this situation. That, at bottom, I myself have in a certain sense asked for this detention and this sentence, because I've always refused to change my opinion, for which I would be willing to give my life and not just remain in prison. That therefore I can only be tranquil and content with myself.”
“You're English," he said. "And I will therefore make certain allowances for you. I realize you don't understand you shouldn't argue with me, and so I'll explain it to you. Don't argue with me." Incredulous, she said, "That's it? 'Don't argue with me' is your explanation as to why I shouldn't argue with you?”
“You leave home, you move on and you do the best you can. I got lost in this whole world and forgot who I am.”

Source : "Miranda Lambert: Breaking The Country Music Mold". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. October 27, 2011.
“I'm not against taking shots, but I am against taking bad shots.”
“It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential.”

Source : Harold Bloom (2001). “Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
“Answers come and go, I've found. But the questions? Those remain forever.”

Source : T. A. Barron (2011). “The Dragon of Avalon”, p.95, Penguin
“Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from and garbage goes, consumption or conservation. They map our lives.”

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