"Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fire blazes. No one ever thanked him."

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Source : Robert Hayden (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company

Robert Hayden

#Father Quotes #Sunday Quotes #Hands Quotes

“If we let our head drop, our heart drops with it. Keep your head up, and your body is capable of amazing feats.”

Source : "Ironman champ: Train your brain, then your body" by Chrissie Wellington, www.cnn.com. February 21, 2012.
“The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.”
“I know theres a great deal that Arnold Schwarzenegger could teach me about making movies. Theres a great deal I could teach him about the fiscal reforms that are needed - desperately needed - to set California back in good order.”
“Never get into a wrestling match with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.”
“There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.”
“When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.”
“If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.”
“Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing outside nature - but that we, with flesh, blood and brain, belong to nature, and exist in its midst, and that all our mastery of it consists in the fact that we have the advantage over all other creatures of being able to learn its laws and apply them correctly.”

Source : Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). “German socialist philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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