Birth Quote by Gabrielle Zevin Download Open image ““To return to the city of one's birth always felt like retreat.”” — Gabrielle Zevin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Birth Birth Felt Felt Like Growing pains Growing up Like Retreat Retreat Return City Solitude
“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you.” — Ann Douglas Copy Share Image
“It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from. We bring home with us when we… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Uneasy sleeper you will live to see the city of your birth pulled down to the last stone.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This city had been a city for two thousand years, and I could feel that with every step I took. bits of all that… — Carrie Vaughn Copy Share Image
“The city became for me the ideal of what I wanted to be as a grown-up. Friendly, but never gushing, cool but not frigid… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we only leave So we may once again arrive, To get a bird's eye view Of what it means to be alive. For… — Erin Hanson Copy Share Image
“Travel not only stirs the blood --- it also gives birth to the spirit.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Your time is a good time, and though I have to leave, you can stay. How lucky you are to be in the city… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“I know that my birth is fortuitous, a laughable accident, and yet, as soon as I forget myself, I behave as if it were… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“He didn't break my heart. No one can break your heart except you.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is a little… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“I am repulsed by ghostwritten novels by reality television stars, celebrity picture books, sports memoirs, movie tie-in editions, novelty items, and—I imagine this goes… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I wish I could tell you to always follow your heart, but I think it is bad advice. You have a heart, yes, it… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“It is a lie that you should only speak from your heart- you ought to let your brain play a part too.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“It is lucky, she thinks, that we don’t feel all the love inside us every moment. We couldn’t breathe or walk or eat. It… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Conception is the beginning of human life. From the time that an ovum is fertilized a new life begins that is neither that of… — Declaration on Procured Abortion Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 1974 Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The greatest mystery in life is not life itself, but death. Death is the culmination of life, the ultimate blossoming of life. In death… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare,… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I gave birth to most of them MC's... So when it comes around to the month of May, Send me your royalty check for… — Roxanne Shante Copy Share Image
