"We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit back to seamlessness? We won't even see it, though we look at it every day."

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Source : Leif Enger (2007). “Peace Like a River”, p.202, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Leif Enger

#Children Quotes #Miracle Quotes #Looks Quotes

“At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.”
“I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.”

Source : Speech to the National Press Club on Media and the Internet, delivered 2 June 1998
“Every artist that becomes famous has a team, and needs to convince someone to believe in them enough to have others rally around them to achieve stardom. If I can be that person, then I am happy to do it.”
“Hunting is the noblest sport yet devised by the hand of man. There were mighty hunters in the Bible, and all the caves where the cave men lived are full of carvings of assorted game the head of the house drug home. If you hunt to eat, or hunt for sport for something fine, something that will make you proud, and make you remember every single detail of the day you found him and shot him, that is good too.”

Source : Robert Chester Ruark (1957). “The Old Man and the boy”, Henry Holt & Company
“I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.”
“I'm one of the few dumb Jewish doctors.”
“We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.”
“But I'm hopeful some of that will start to change. The public is more libertarian, the public is saying we want people who are going to be independent and not bow to leadership in either of the major parties.”

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