Harry Behn quotes

“A spark in the sun, this tiny flower has roots deep in the cool earth.”
-- Harry Behn

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“Excuse me while I slip into something more comfortable.”
-- Harry Behn

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“There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.”

Source : Adah Isaacs Menken (1868). “Infelicia [poems].”, p.72

“Before I take my last breath, before my last flower withers, I wish to live, I wish to make love, I wish to be in this world close to those who need me, those who I need, in order to learn, comprehend and rediscover that I can be and I want to be better at every moment.”

“If I ever fall in love again, I would like it if it were a slightly cold guy. Someone who won't constantly mind about my childish needs but who, the day after the quarrel, for example would offer me a flower accompanied by a sweet note That's kind of guy I need.”

“I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility. I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.”

“The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.”

“I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.”

“This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.”

“All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.”

“For the curse of Cain, the curse of being an outcast and a wanderer over the face of the earth has been removed...”

“For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does not affect the Astronomical Science. It is just for the Physicist to see if it is possible to refute it.”