"No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion."

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

#Fall Quotes #Blue Quotes #Shining Quotes

“I always did sing. It's always been something I love to do but it has also been the most private and most secret thing that you don't really want to let the world in on.”
“In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I'm an accidental writer.”
“If there is a problem, and you don't say anything about it, it's like a cancer and it becomes bigger.”
“I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.”

Source : "Beverly Cleary at 95: A Talk With the Author Who Created Ramona Quimby". Interview with Rachel Brown, www.theatlantic.com. July 6, 2011.
“It's a purging of sorts. Like, when you're all done doing your laundry and it's fresh and bright, but washing the clothes, you wouldn't want to get in while it's spinning around.”
“The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen.”

Source : "Uncut Interview with Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide Upon His Historic Return to Haiti". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 22, 2011.
“I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over.”

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