"We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know what the kite called itself when it got away, when it escaped into the night..."

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Andrea Gibson

#Night Quotes #Light Quotes #Storm Quotes

“I am not going to respect ... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.”
“She remembered was hope was, and this was it. That inner churning that moves you forward, plows you through life the way the boats plowed the shiny water, the way the plane was plowing forward to a place new, and where she was needed.”
“If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.”
“Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws...It pains me to say this, but the NRA seems to be right: The cities and states that have the toughest gun laws have the most murder and mayhem.”
“Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark.”
“Patriotism can be good or bad. Knee-jerk patriotism can be very bad. I'm patriotic almost to the point of self-consciousness, but I love my country the way I love a friend or a child who I would correct if she was going the wrong way. Who I expect the very best from.”
“The heavens will not be filled with those who never made mistakes but with those who recognized that they were off course and who corrected their ways to get back in the light of gospel truth.”

Source : "A Matter of a Few Degrees". Dieter F. Uchtdorf's speech at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April, 2008.

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