"Living's heavy work, but off to one side,……" — Natalie Babbitt
"Living's heavy work, but off to one side, the way we are, it's useless, too. It don't make sense. If I knowed how to climb back on the wheel, I'd do it in a minute. You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road."
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24 Quotes by Natalie Babbitt
Natalie Babbitt has 24 quotes on this site.
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Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have…
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Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.
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The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the…
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Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't.
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Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.
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For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough. For Jesse…
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Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life
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But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like…
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You dont have to live forever just live.
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Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring…
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Time is like a wheel. Turning and turning - never stopping. And the woods are the center; the hub of…
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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while…
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Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
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Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that…
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I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
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Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk…
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