Quotes About Connection

Her heart was bleeding for David Copperfield. Laurel never read David Copperfield when her mother was with her. Today the book, as usual, would be returned to its hiding place behind the cushion in the little parlor when she had finished with it.

You can't love a man till you've had a baby with him.

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it -- but there is.

We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

it is not always that we want friends to be so reasonable and rational about things. Sometimes we want people we like to agree with us, to say yes, you have been hard done by, regardless.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.

They liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see,My heart untravel'd fondly turns to thee;Still to my brother turns with ceaseless pain,And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

Music is my higher power

Indeed, half the battle of living a playful life lies in committing yourself to authentic communication. The fun of engagement with others soon follows.

Then the boy realised,the penguin wasn't lost,he was just lonely.

With you I could live, without you I was already dead.

Our bodies are stardust; our lives are sunlight.

A tree grows into the air because it grows out of the air. The bulk of the tree is not made from the soil beneath- indeed, the soil is in large part made by the tree. Both soil and tree are made from the sun and wind and rain. The land is just a place to stand.

Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person's eyes.

Music is part of being human.

My religion is nature. That's what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.

Without a moral center -- there can be no string family. And without family, we one and all suffer.

I want to change the world and I used to think I needed to do some big, significant thing. More recently I see this can be accomplished one relationship at a time.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music.