Answering The Call Quotes:

If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette”, p.475, The Floating Press

topic: Kindness, Cutting, Clouds, Foreshadowing, Villette

Just so you know Labrodor retrivers do not howl.Begals Howl.Wolves howl. Labs do not howl, at lestnot well. Marley attempted twice to howl, both times in answer to a passing police siren, tossing back his head, forming his mouth into an O shape, and letting loose the most pathetic sound Ihave ever heard, more like gargling than answering the call of the wild. Butnow,no question about it he was howling.

- John Grogan

topic: Police, Sirens, Mouths, Marley, Answering The Call

Thank you for answering the call to be teachers. Thank you for the enduring impression you've made in the lives you have touched.

- Donna Fargo

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Made, Answering The Call, Thank You Teacher

We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone.

- Os Guinness

source: Os Guinness (2008). “Rising to the Call”, p.40, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Devoted, Answering The Call

When you arrive in heaven, you will know that answering the call was worth it. Answering the call is always worth it.

- Karen Wheaton

topic: Heaven, Worth It, Answering The Call

Scholes was probably the best English midfielder since Bobby Charlton. He was such a brilliant long passer that he could choose a hair on the head of any team-mate answering the call of nature at our training ground. Gary Neville once thought he had found refuge in a bush, but Scholesy found him from 40 yeards. He inflicted a similar long-range missile strike, once, on Peter Schmeichel, and was chased round the training ground for his impertinence. Scholesy would have made a first class-sniper.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Team, Class, Hair, Midfielders, Gary