"One important part of historical recording is to get people of another generation to understand the feelings, the passion that went into social transformation. That's why oral history is so valuable."

-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Passion Quotes #People Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper”
“I eat whatever I like, but I play tennis and run nearly every day.”
“That's the only way I could describe the music. It was the sonic equivalent of flight”
“As Christians, though there may be reasons to be troubled, there are greater reasons not to be.”
“Her memory's your love. You want no other.”
“Your pain has a purpose. Your problems, struggles, heartaches, and hassles cooperate toward one end-the glory of God.”
“The city might be savage, stray dogs might share the streets with grimy urchins whose blank eyes reflected the knowledge that they might soon be covered over, blinded forever, by the same two pennies just begged from some gentleman, and no one in the fuming, fulminous boulevards of trade might know who actually ran Ambergris-or, if anyone ran it at all, but, like a renegade clock, it ran on and wound itself heedless, empowered by the insane weight of its own inertia, the weight of its own citizenry.”
“Being in the beauty industry has taught me that most of us are never satisfied with how we look. We all wish we had better hair, could lose that last 10 pounds, or look like someone else. I always see the beauty in the clients that have sat in my chair, and I've tried to help them see it, too, and feel good about themselves.”

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