"But as the scissors snip-snapped through her hair and the razor shaved the rest, she realized with a sudden awful panic that she could no longer recall anything from the past. I cannot remember, she whispered to herself. I cannot remember. She's been shorn of memory as brutally as she'd been shorn of her hair, without permission, without reason... Gone, all gone, she thought again wildly, no longer even sure what was gone, what she was mourning."

-- Jane Yolen

#Memories Quotes #Past Quotes #Hair Quotes

“I feel like love is the thing we were created for, yet it's the place we struggle the most.”
“Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul?”
“During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.”

Source : New River Media Interview, www.pbs.org.
“God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all—no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions.”

Source : Ronald J. Sider (2005). “Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity”, p.58, Thomas Nelson Inc
“We have not found any smoking guns.”

Source : News conference, New York, N.Y., 9 Jan. 2003
“One of the ways we communicate that we can be trusted is in the way we care for other people.”
“Life can be lived as a temporary arrangement. Life is a temporary arrangement! But the longer you go without changing, the more obscure the likelihood you ever will. After enough time passes, the idea of another way of life grows even more misty.”
“I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect - completely removed in fact - even as we ourselves are.”

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