Carmen Agra Deedy Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“I have been ineluctably drawn to libraries ever since I entered that sanctum sanctorum. It was a place of quietude. In a world where things go beep and ding and ring, where youâ€™ve got mail and youâ€™ve got messages, when I enter a library, I feel that I am still entering a temple.”
-- Carmen Agra Deedy

#Library #World #Mail
“Because there is no nation so powerful it cannot be wounded, nor a people so small they cannot offer mighty comfort.”
-- Carmen Agra Deedy

#Powerful #People #Generosity
“I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.”
-- Carmen Agra Deedy

#Daughter #Mother #School
“If one mouse is a spark...then ten thousand are a conflagration.”
-- Carmen Agra Deedy

#Sparks #Thousand #Mice
“There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The tales of our elders who remember such cycles are very important to us now.”
-- Carmen Agra Deedy

#Loss #Important #Remember
“Whatever we perceive as good in the world has always endured, and it always will.”
-- Carmen Agra Deedy

#World #Perceive
“I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesnt hurt, either.”
-- Carmen Agra Deedy

#Hurt #Prayer #Years

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