Elyne Mitchell quotes

“There was some rhythm, some ecstasy in this dance of flight that expressed the fact that happiness which touches depths and rises beyond physical confines is as old as consciousness, yet ever renewed, and is like the glorying flight of the birds”
-- Elyne Mitchell

Source : Elyne Mitchell (1947). “Images in Water”

#Bird Quotes #Depth Quotes #Facts Quotes

“For God took a handful of blizzard snow, blew on it and created the horse.”
-- Elyne Mitchell

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“Here, also, the future was cried aloud by the wind through the rocks, so that all those who heard would shiver, and then the liquid spring song of the thrush would make all the beauty of moonlight and sunlight blend together, making it true, so true, that happiness must come again”
-- Elyne Mitchell

#Song Quotes #Spring Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“Legends of the Silver Stallion had been told for years now, whenever mountain stockmen met round the campfires or on the winding hill tracks. Songs were sung about him to the cattle and both songs and tales had become even stranger since his supposed death when he vanished through the wind and the night over a great cliff. Tales kept cropping up of a ghost horse seen, or imagined, roaming over the mountains at night, of stockmen waking in a hut at midnight, hearing the tremendous stallion’s cry which could only be Thowra’s”
-- Elyne Mitchell

#Song Quotes #Horse Quotes #Night Quotes

“Just then, down through the last glimmer of twilight, stepping high and free, like a cloud, a moth, a ghost in the shape of a horse — came the Silver Stallion. Wild, beautiful, and free as the wind he came, from one kingdom to another, Thowra”
-- Elyne Mitchell

#Beautiful Quotes #Horse Quotes #Twilight Quotes

“Snow and dark, and the winter comes. Nothing remains the same.”
-- Elyne Mitchell

#Dark Quotes #Winter Quotes #Snow Quotes

“The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.”

“All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.”

“Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.”

Source : "Archaeopteryx: Early Bird Catches a Can of Worms" by V. Morell, February 5, 1993.

“Instead of regarding birds as deriving from dinosaurs, Scansoriopteryx reinstates the validity of regarding them as a separate class uniquely avian and non-dinosaurian.”

“Just to be clear, if, like Pat Robertson, you somehow missed all the evidence, all the research, the depth and breadth of all the knowledge garnered about HIV and AIDS over the past three decades, you cannot get HIV if you share towels,”

“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

“I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.”

“I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.”

“The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.”

Source : Abraham Flexner (1910). “Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching”

“Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.”