Kirsten Buccigrossi > Kirsten's Quotes

“Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown in nature.”
― John Gierach, Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders : A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury

“Honest work is medicine. You can it bottle or buy better remedy, whatever your ailment.”
― Pete Beatty, Cuyahoga

“Do anything regular enough, and it becomes sacrament.”
― Pete Beatty, Cuyahoga

“Now, you have not met any citizens of Cleveland yet. Here is your first. It is a trick to tell apart a Cleveland man from an Ohio city man. They look the same and generally at the same. The only difference is that Clevelanders are wrong all over.”
― Pete Beatty, Cuyahoga

“We cannot live without gobbling up the world - taking it's trouble into our bones and flesh - a kick will bust the trouble loose!”
― Pete Beatty, Cuyahoga

“I think we all are forever looking for costumes. We are naked and fearful fools in search of disguises, with pockets to hide our sins in. Actor's rags.”
― Pete Beatty, Cuyahoga

“The sin already done is the one we look for sharpest.”
― Pete Beatty, Cuyahoga

“Have you ever felt the breath of an angry tree? It has a child carelessness.”
― Pete Beatty, Cuyahoga

“There are a few times in life when you leap up and the past that you'd been standing on falls away behind you, and the future you mean to land on is not yet in place, and for a moment you're suspended knowing nothing and no one, not even yourself.”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

“I see the past as it actually was," Maeve said. She was looking at the trees.

"But we overlay the present onto the past. We look back through the lens of what we know now, so we're not seeing it as the people we were, we're seeing it as the people we are, and that means the past has been radically altered.”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

[Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Nov. 1980), pp. 16-32]”
― Barbara Tuchman

“If a god is a thing that has absolute power over us, then in this world there are many. There are gods that we choose and gods that we can't avoid; there are gods that we pray to and gods that prey on us; there are dreams that become gods and nightmares that do, as well.”
― Kawai Strong Washburn, Sharks in the Time of Saviors

“The only true voyage of discovery . . . would be not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

“Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,

"You owe me."

Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.”
― Hafiz

“A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realities—never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.”
― John Steinbeck, The Pearl

“For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.”
― John Steinbeck, The Pearl

“But now, by saying what his future was going to be like, he had created it. A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes a along with other realities-never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.”
― John Steinbeck, The Pearl

“It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings.”
― John Steinbeck, The Pearl

“Every man suddenly became related to Kino's pearl, and Kino's pearl went into the dreams, the speculations, the schemes, the plans, the futures, the wishes, the needs, the lusts, the hungers, of everyone, and only one person stood in the way and that was Kino, so that he became curiously every man's enemy. The news stirred up something infinitely black and evil in the town; the black distillate was like the scorpion, or like hunger in the smell of food, or like loneliness when love is withheld. The poison sacs of the town began to manufacture venom, and the town swelled and puffed with the pressure of it.”
― John Steinbeck, The Pearl

“To determine to go and to say it was to be halfway there”
― John Steinbeck, The Pearl

“This is one of the most beautiful parts of being a human—the drive to connect and understand, heal and blossom. This is the kernel that takes my breath away. The piece I want to hold on to.”
― Rebekah Taussig, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

“At this very moment, I am the youngest I will ever be again, and also the oldest I’ve ever been. I’m human. I was born. I will age. Not aging means I am dead.”
― Alua Arthur, Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End