"Christmas, so long looming over everyone's head, finally surged up, buried everyone alive and ebbed away, leaving its victims distinctly cross."

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Source : Angela Thirkell (2016). “Northbridge Rectory”, p.129, Hachette UK

Angela Thirkell

#Christmas Quotes #Long Quotes #Leaving Quotes

“We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.”
“Im having an amazing life and it isnt over yet.”
“Chaos and Order combined equal Balance.”
“Impossible situations are our specialty.”
“Charles V used to say that "the more languages a man knew, he was so many more times a man." Each new form of human speech introduces one into a new world of thought and life. So in some degree is it in traversing other continents and mingling with other races. As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.”
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that”
“Both group effort and individual testimony flow from conviction as to the role of people on earth. In stewardship of the common heritage, a few simple beliefs recur: that all are indeed members of the same human family, that all share in responsibility for the others, that each is capable of responding directly to divine guidance. To seek to translate these into practical action with regard to soil or petroleum or the fish of the sea is not necessarily to do what is directly effective in changing society.”
“I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.”

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