quotes about Long Love

“My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.”

“Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne.”

“Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia. It is the crack between the last golden rays of summer and the dark of winter; the delicately balanced tweak of the year before it is given over entirely to the dark; a time for the souls of the departed to squint, to peek and perhaps to travel through the gap. What could be more thrilling and worthy of celebration than that? It is a time to celebrate sweet bounty, as the harvest is brought in. It is a time of excitement and pleasure for children before the dark sets in. We should all celebrate that.”

“I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.”

“Dad just told me that I'm the son of a dragon!And then he leaves?”

“If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.”

“To not advance is to retreat.”

“Look right through me, look right through me.”

Source : Song: Mad World {From Donnie Darko}, Album: Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets

“When I'm not working, my time is really about my children.”

“The most reliable way to be certain of their classroom impact is through independent studies conducted by third-party organisations which compare the student growth in our corps members' classrooms to that of other teachers in similar situations.”

Source : "Eight questions for Wendy Kopp". "Democracy in America", www.economist.com. April 3, 2010.