"On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh."

-- Aldo Leopold

#Sky Quotes #Wings Quotes #New Day Quotes

“If they succeed in creating an inclusive structure in virtually any peaceful form, Iraq succeeds. If they fail, the U.S.-led coalition fails almost regardless of its military success and that of the new Iraqi forces, and Iraq will move towards division, paralysis, civil conflict and/or a new strongman.”
“I want to be a soldier as my father was.”
“My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it's the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things.”

Source : "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Hannah Simone". www.esquire.com. April 23, 2012.
“You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet andâ€”somehowâ€”the wine.”
“Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.”
“The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.”

Source : James Martineau (1891). “Essays, Reviews, and Addresses”
“New York is the place where all the aspirations of the western world meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction of a steam dredge. It is the icing on the pie called Christian civilization.”
“What has made it work, or what makes certain paintings successful or not, has to do with my being a painter and a thinking, feeling person, more than my sex, color, height, origin.”

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