"you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another."

-- Ernest Hemingway

#Moving Quotes #Get Away Quotes

“I watched them from the window, thy children at their play, And I thought of all my own dear friends, who were far, oh, far away, And childish loves, and childish cares, and a child's own buoyant gladness Came gushing back again to me with a soft and solemn sadness; And feelings frozen up full long, and thoughts of long ago, Seemed to be thawing at my heart with a warm and sudden flow.”

Source : Arthur Hugh Clough (1951). “Poems”, Oxford University Press
“Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of the magic of Merlin in contemporary industrialized England.”
“When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.”
“The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.”

Source : Charles Godfrey Leland (2015). “Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land”, p.142, Library of Alexandria
“My mom's whole side of the family, they're all Packers fans. My mom's a Bears fan. My stepdad is a Vikings guy. So that gets ugly. My mom sits upstairs watching the Bears game; he sits in the basement. They can't watch it together. Football's a violent anger in our family dynamic.”
“I've always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of a woman and you know yourself. I think knowing yourself is a wonderful thing especially when you're in your 40s and you're kind of in your skin. Life is not so confusing anymore.”
“It is the most painful thing to see how young children become collateral damage of wars, but when peace treaties are signed landmines do not respect any of these accords. And as long as these silent killers linger after wars, children will never know peace”
“Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.”

Source : Abraham Cowley (1806). “The Works ... Re-edited. - London, G. Kearsley 1806”, p.261

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