"It is charming the way everyone in the South says, 'Come back.' This is the regulation farewell at gas stations, soda fountains, general stores, tourist camps. 'Come back,' they call, 'come back.' Do they feel marooned in one place, lost, needing to believe someone will return to share their exile on the similar main streets, in the varied but always new-looking land?"

-- Martha Gellhorn

#Believe Quotes #Farewell Quotes #Land Quotes

“Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.”
“Luckily, I'm a governor - so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do.”
“Children should be able to see the Gospel modeled in the way their father loves their mother with a sacrificial love...”
“I learned a long time ago that I can't control the challenges the creator sends my way, but I can control the way I think about them and deal with them”
“All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times”
“Iâ€™s been livinâ€™ a long time in yesterday, Sandy chile, anâ€™ I knows there ainâ€™t no room in de world foâ€™ nothinâ€™ moâ€™n love. I know, chile! Everâ€™thing there is but lovinâ€™ leaves a rust on yoâ€™ soul. Anâ€™ to love sho â€˜nough, you got to have a spot in yoâ€™ heart foâ€™ everâ€™body â€“ great anâ€™ small, white anâ€™ black, anâ€™ them whatâ€™s good anâ€™ them whatâ€™s evil â€“ â€˜cause love ainâ€™t got no crowded-out places where de good ones stay anâ€™ de bad ones canâ€™t come in. When it gets that way, then it ainâ€™t love.”
“We shall not always plant while others reap”

Source : Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.93, Library of America
“This world is not the sum total of God's resources -- on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the prelude of the true world, the true life.”

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