Brian Andreas Quotes
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There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.
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If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'
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The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it.
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I've always like the time before dawn because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be, so it's easier to remember who I am.
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I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.
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When you start to crack open, don't waste a moment gathering your old self up into something like you knew before. Let your new self splash like sunlight into every dark place and laugh and cry and make sounds you never made & thank all that is holy for the gift.
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The birds brought seeds & flowers & bits of brightly colored string & placed them in her hair while she slept so she would remember the wild joy of spring when she finally awoke.
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There came a moment in the middle of the song when he suddenly felt every heartbeat in the room & after that he never forgot that he was part of something much bigger.
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There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.
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Trying to follow in the footsteps of the masters, but it's a lot harder than it looks because even though they had the same size feet as us, they weren't looking down the whole time while they walked to make sure they were doing it right.
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The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same.
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There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what we do as scientists or technologists.
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In those days, we finally chose to walk like giants and hold the world in arms grown strong with love And there may be many things we forget in the days to come, But this will not be one of them.
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There has never been a day when I have not been proud of you, I said to my Son though some days I'm louder about other stuff so it's easy to miss that.
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We went to a church that had missionaries who'd come back once a year from Fiji & give talks. I remember one of them saying it was very hard work telling people they were going to lose their everlasting souls if they didn't shape up. I pictured people sitting on the beach listening to this sweaty man all dressed in black telling them they were going to burn in hell & them thinking this was good fun, these scary stories this guy was telling them & afterwards, they'd all go home & eat mango & fish & they'd play Monopoly & laugh & laugh & they'd go to bed & wake up the next day & do it all again.
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Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.
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Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.
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You may not remember the time you let me go first. Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn't that far to go. Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up. You may not remember any of those, but I do and this is what I have to say to you: Today, no matter what it takes, we ride home together.
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I was never good at hide and seek because I'd always make enough noise so my friends would be sure to find me. I don't have anyone to play those games with any more, but now and then I make enough noise just in case someone is still looking and hasn't found me yet.
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I am only strong enough for a life of partial virtue.
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You're the strangest person I ever met, she said & I said you too & we decided we'd know each other a long time.
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Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.
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Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.
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I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.