"You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice."

-- Edwidge Danticat

#School Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Tree Quotes

“I still live in an apartment in Paris with my wife. No, we don't have a yacht, but we do have a house in Spain; that is my luxury.”
“The burden becomes light that is shared by love.”
“I started crying, because there's nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version.”
“The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.”
“Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a criticism. If the birds should read the newspapers, they would all take to changing their notes. The parrots would exchange with the nightingales, and what a farce it would be!”
“People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?”
“When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.”
“The act of creation can be an extreme violent experience.”

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