When I read a story, I relive the moment from which it sprang. A scene burned itself into me, a building magnetized me, a mood or ...season of Nature's penetrated me, history suddenly appeared to me in some tiny act, or a face had begun to haunt me before I glanced at it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ghosts seem harder to please than we are; it is as though they haunted for haunting's sake--much as we relive, brood, and smoulder... over our pasts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've begun to appreciate the generational patterns that ripple out from our lives like stones dropped in water, pulsing outward ev...en after we are gone. Although we have but one childhood, we relive it first through our children's and then our grandchildren's eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's o...bvious.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs--a dog exercising a somewhat sim...ilar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response,... you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each ...of us thinks, almost daily, of how our own childhood compares with our children's, and of what our children's future will hold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The end product of child raising is not only the child but the parents, who get to go through each stage of human development from... the other side, and get to relive the experiences that shaped them, and get to rethink everything their parents taught them. The get, in effect, to reraise themselves and become their own person.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of... escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »