"My Mama Moved Among the Days My Mama moved among the days like a dreamwalker in a field; seemed like what she touched was here seemed like what touched her couldn't hold, she got us almost through the high grass then seemed like she turned around and ran right back in right back on in"

-- Lucille Clifton

#Dream Quotes #Fields Quotes #Mama Quotes

“This can't last. This misery can't last. I must remember that and try to control myself. Nothing lasts really. Neither happiness nor despair. Not even life lasts very long”

Source : "Fictional character: Laura Jesson". "Brief Encounter", www.imdb.com. 1945.
“Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.”
“The "family" has clearly emerged anew in the late 1970s as a central subject for discussion, debate, research and writing in bothscholarly and popular arenas. Anxiety over whether or not the family as a basic social institution is dying has diminished. In its stead has emerged a fairly broad consensus around the position that the family is "here to stay," but that it certainly is changing.”
“Usually when you're playing with other people in not such a reverberant room, you have to be quick on your feet and think about stuff really quickly. But inside the cistern, it was almost like I was at home on my computer arranging and taking time thinking about the next step, the next note. Instead, the room was my collaborator. I could hear the note and sit there and think. I could be arranging as I was going in real time, which was fascinating.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Teen magazines keep writing that my eyes Â´twinkleÂ´ when I talk. Look, IÂ´m a guy. I donÂ´t twinkle, you know! You can say that my eyes Â´sparkleÂ´ maybe, but not Â´twinkleÂ´ alright? Got that teen magazine writers?!”
“A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.”

Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.72, Macmillan
“We're becoming slaves to our social networks - and that's not a bad thing. You like your favorite networks, so do you friends, and pretty soon you have market winners.”
“Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.”

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