Family Hikes Quotes & Sayings

What's the point if you don't tell your people? Who else can bring you down like they do? — Dakota Lane

Feathers fell from the sky. Like black snow, they drifted onto an old city called Bath. — Stefan Bachmann

My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more like eight-mile hikes up mountains. — Mika Brzezinski

Pierre-Jean Jouve writes: "poetry is a soul inaugurating form". The soul inaugurates. Here it is the supreme power. It is human dignity. Even if the "form" was already well-known, previously discovered, carved from "commonplaces", before the interior poetic light was turned upon it, it was a mere object for the mind. But the soul comes and inaugurates the form, dwells in it, takes pleasure in it. — Gaston Bachelard

There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due. — John Dewey

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business. — Everett Dirksen

Other Bengalis gossiped about him and prayed their own children would not ruin their lives in the same way. And so he became what all parents feared, a blot, a failure, someone who was not contributing to the grand circle of accomplishments Bengali children were making across the country, as surgeons or attorneys or scientists, or writing articles for the front page of The New York Times. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I am breathless, hopeless, and consumed. I now know that I am between balloons. — Kimberly Russell

Loss does that, hits you out of the blue. You can be in the car or in class or at the movies, laughing and having a good time, and suddenly it's as if someone has reached directly into the wound and squeezed with all their might. — Jennifer Niven

Some people like to say serendipitous. I like to say magical. — Devendra Banhart

Old yam digger please explain this mountain's sorrows — Basho Matsuo

You seek your destiny; you succumb to your fate. Destiny originates within the self; fate comes from outside. Fate is the force that lies beyond individual will and control; it pushes you from behind. Destiny is the attracting force in front of you that acts like a magnet and that you choose to acquire. — Howard Suber

When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis. — Warren Farrell