Not fear but a stirring... of wonder makes me catch my breath when I feel the tug of it when I thought it had loosened itself and gone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If nature has commanded that of all the animals, infancy shall last longest in human beings--it is because nature knows how many r...ivers there are to cross and paths to retrace. Nature provides time for mistakes to be corrected (by both children and adults), for prejudices to overcome, and for children to catch their breath and restore their image of themselves, peers, parents, teachers, and the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"And how can one recognize the walk of a woman who has suffered?" Grandmother answered in one breath: "From a very special p...anache, and incomparable one that follows a person who has told herself one day: 'I have had enough of helping men suffer, now I must help them live'."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Indian from time to time pointed out to us where he had thus crept along day after day when he was a boy of ten, and in a star...ving condition. He had been hunting far north of this with two grown Indians. The winter came on unexpectedly early, and the ice compelled them to leave their canoe at Grand Lake, and walk down the bank. They shouldered their furs and started for Oldtown. The snow was not deep enough for snowshoes, or to cover the inequalities of the ground. Polis was soon too weak to carry any burden; but he managed to catch one otter. This was the most they all had to eat on this journey.... For six months after getting home, he was very low, and did not expect to live, and was perhaps always the worse for it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is grey in your hair. Young men no longer suddenly catch their breath... When you are passing; But maybe some old gaffer mutters a blessing Because it was your prayer Recovered him upon the bed of death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that we...re real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.... Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Remember your creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come, and the years draw near when you will say, "I ha...ve no pleasure in them"; before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return with the rain; in the day when the guards of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the women who grind cease working because they are few, and those who look through the windows see dimly; when the doors on the street are shut, and the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low; when one is afraid of heights, and terrors are in the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along and desire fails; because all must go to their eternal home, and the mourners will go about the streets; before the silver cord is snapped, and the golden bowl is broken, and the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel broken at the cistern, and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »