George Ella Lyon quotes
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“A baby is a very heavy thing, any mother will tell you.”
-- George Ella LyonSource : George Ella Lyon (2010). “Borrowed Children”, p.35, University Press of Kentucky
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“You can't replace a tree anyway. Like people, you don't know how big they were till they're gone.”
-- George Ella LyonSource : George Ella Lyon (2010). “Borrowed Children”, p.82, University Press of Kentucky
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“Good-bye is always hello to something else. Good-bye/hello, good-bye/hello, like the sound of a rocking chair.”
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“I just know when I quit looking to other people for directions, I found my own map.”
-- George Ella LyonSource : George Ella Lyon (2012). “Holding On to Zoe”, p.9, Macmillan
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“Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.”
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“The only day in your life.... Your mother smiled when you cried...”
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“Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.”
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“The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.”
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