"Give me a hot coal glowing bright red, Give me an ember sizzling with heat, These are the jewels made from my beak. We fly between the flames and never get singed We plunge through the smoke and never cringe. The secrets of fire, its strange winds, its rages, We know it all as it rampages Through forests, through canyons, Up hillsides and down. We track it. We'll find it. Take coals by the pound. We'll yarp in the heart of the hottest flame Then bring back its coals an make them tame. For we are the colliers brave and beyond all We are the owls of the colliering chaw!"

-- Kathryn Lasky

#Heart Quotes #Glowing Quotes #Flames Quotes

“But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?”

Source : Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.14, Courier Corporation
“What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?”
“Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.”

Source : Jane Smiley (1991). “Ordinary Love and Good Will: Two Novellas”
“You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else.”
“Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice”
“Being in touch with the problems in the world or our lives is important, but even more important is to focus the brain on what we can do about them.”
“Youâ€™d best ask the lady boffin, sir,â€ Newkirk said. â€œMidshipmen arenâ€™t allowed to have opinions.”
“If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.”

Source : "W.O.W. : Writers on Writing". Interview with Jon Winokur, 1986.

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