Quotes About Connection

Sometimes we try to get our students into an analytic frame of mind, and we onder why they get bored after awhile! I've had a great reaction from some of the kids when I do a summary of a story, and then ask the kids if that story gets any bells going in their heads — gets them thinking about their own lives. that's when they start paying attention, and that's when they'll speak up.

There isn't so much love in the world that you can turn it away when it's offered.

Talk to her, goddamnit. She ain't a stick of furniture. She is one of God's creatures, and she will hear you. I see these goddamned people walkin' dogs, yakking on their phones, makes me wanna kick their sissy asses. What they got a dog for, they want to talk on their phones? That dog there will understand you, Officer James. She will understand what's in your heart. Am I just shouting at the grass and dog shit out here, or are you reading what I am telling you?

A dog could see your heart in your eyes, Budress told him, and dogs were drawn to our hearts.

Pike put down the cat. He slid from Pike's arms like molasses and puddled at his feet.

Into the company of loveit all returns.

The Answer" Will we speak to each other making the grass bend as if a wind were before us, will our way be as graceful, as substantial as the movement of something moving so gently. We break things into pieces like walls we break ourselves into hearing them fall just to hear it.

Love, if you love me, lie next to me. Be for me, like rain, the getting out of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi- lust of intentional indifference. Be wet with a decent happiness.

Moon, moon, when you leave me alone all the darkness is an utter blackness, a pit of fear, a stench, hands unreasonable never to touch. But I love you. Do you love me. What to say when you see me.

Let's build a house of human pieces, arms and hair, not telling any one.

A Token" My lady fair with soft arms, what can I say to you—words, words as if all worlds were there.

To be in love is like going out- side to see what kind of day it is.

How dear you are to me, how love- ly all your body is, how all these senses do commingle, so that in your very arms I still can think of you.

Busy people tend to forgo the one activity - TV watching _ that is most lethal to community involvement

Serendipitous connections become less likely as increased communication narrows our tastes and interests. Knowing and caring more and more about less and less. This tendency may increase productivity in a narrow sense while decreasing social cohesion.

Open Everything' is everything--it is our mind, our heart, our soul, our destiny.

The sound of your voice, your radiant looks, Your smell the smell of your hair and many other things will live on inside me.

Elle tourna vers moi les yeux à cet instant, mais je n'ose y croire, ce regard fut-il un aveu. Ne me dites pas qu'elle est belle, elle est émouvante. Sa vue imprime à mon coeur un mouvement plus rapide, son absence emplit mon esprit.

Le temps ni l'espace, rien ne s'oppose à ces relations idéales.

If you stay right where you are, then people will eventually come to you

Dickens gave his readers history on a human scale.

edging his way closer to the writing of a novel in which he would remind his readers that telegrams and railways weren't the only ways in which they were all connected.

I knew what we had was not over, we were not done and we did not know how to make our love end.

It always gave me a peculiar feeling to catch a glimpse of my parents' lives before I was born.