"Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make."

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Elizabeth Bishop

#Sailing Quotes #Care Quotes #Soap Quotes

“Our cemeteries are full of people who prayed to live.”
“We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.”
“Isn't this the truth of any good mother? That in all of our lives. We worry only about those we brought into this world, regardless of whether they loved us back or treated us fairly or understood our shortcomings.”

Source : Adriana Trigiani (2001). “Big Cherry Holler: A Big Stone Gap Novel”, p.278, Random House
“Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is never not heard. / It can wait centuries if it has to.”

Source : Alexis De Veaux (1980). “Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday”, HarperCollins Publishers
“The next thing you're going to tell me is Daniel Bryan is the United States Champion.”
“Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.”
“I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.”
“I was very athletic when I was younger and I am a very competitive person, so I never give up.”

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