"You went up a girl and came down a woman."

-- Patrick Ness

#Girl Quotes #Chaos Walking Quotes

“I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.”

Source : "Exclusive: Gold Medal Winner Hannah Kearney On Her Olympic Experience" by Hannah Kearney, www.mtv.com. March 1, 2010.
“Wars results in immediate deaths and destruction, but the environmental consequences can last hundreds, often thousands of years. And it is not just war itself that undermines our life support system, but also the research and development, military exercises and general preparations for battle that are carried out on a daily basis in most parts of the world. The majority of this pre-war activity takes place without the benefit of civilian scrutiny and therefore we are unaware of some of what is being done to our environment in the name of 'security.”

Source : Rosalie Bertell (2001). “Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War”, p.2, Black Rose Books Ltd.
“If you breathed deep and set your mind to it, you could rise above your anger.”
“Poetry is an orphan of silence.”
“If I had a lover who wanted to hear from me every day, I would break with him.”
“The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.”
“The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.”
“With every failure, every crisis, every difficult time, I say - What is this here to teach me? And as soon as you get the lesson, you get to move on. If you really get the lesson, you pass and you don't have to repeat the class. My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment”

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