Tadpoles In Pool Quotes & Sayings

People are only proud of your achievements and success not your struggles. — M.F. Moonzajer

There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart. — Deidre Hall

It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance. — Erich Von Stroheim

As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns. — Stephen King

It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me. — Laurie Lee

Occasionally we glimpse the South Rim, four or five thousand feet above. From the rims the canyon seems oceanic; at the surface of the river the feeling is intimate. To someone up there with binoculars we seem utterly remote down here. It is this know dimension if distance and time and the perplexing question posed by the canyon itself- What is consequential? (in one's life, in the life of human beings, in the life of a planet)- that reverberate constantly, and make the human inclination to judge (another person, another kind of thought) seem so eerie ... Two kinds of time pass here: sitting at the edge of a sun-warmed pool watching blue dragonflies and black tadpoles. And the rapids: down the glassy-smooth tongue into a yawing trench, climb a ten-foot wall of standing water and fall into boiling, ferocious hydraulics ... — Barry Lopez

The fires pool and strut; they flow up the sides of the ramparts like tides; they splash into alleys, over rooftops, through a carpark. Smoke chases dust; ash chases smoke. A newsstand floats, burning. — Anthony Doerr

To let the light of the world flood back-to say this has not happened!
But why turn one's head hither and thither? This is the truth. This is fact. — Virginia Woolf

Every time I went into the studio, I always sung with my heart. If it came out as strong, as good, as powerful as that to my fans, then I was satisfied. I never slacked. I always did all the songs the same way as the first. — Percy Sledge

Each man recalls not the enemy he hated, but the champion who engaged him with such valor. — Steven Pressfield

It the myth-pool; sometimes the word-pool. He says that every time you call someone a good egg or a bad apple you're drinking from the pool or catching tadpoles at its edge; that every time you send a child off to war and danger of death because you love the flag and have taught the child to love it, too, you are swimming in that pool . . . out deep, where the big ones with the hungry teeth also swim. — Stephen King

If nothing else, races bring people together. Even if it is through a shared sense of helplessness and loss of dignity. — Dana L. Ayers

Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who think diffenrently ... — Michelle Obama

I would take it to heart if people were mad about something my character did. — Lucy Hale