Celia Thaxter (Celia Laighton Thaxter) Quotes
When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness. In this hour divinely fresh and still, the fair face of every flower salutes me with a silent joy. . . . All the cares, perplexities, and griefs of existence, all the burdens of life slip from my shoulders and leave me with the heart of a little child that asks nothing beyond the present moment of innocent bliss.

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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.
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I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.
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This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
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I'm loyal, and I like my friends. Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.
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I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.
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I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
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Wretched un-idea'd girls.
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The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...
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It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.
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Here in the hospital, I say,that is not my body, not my body.I am not here for the doctorsto read like a recipe.
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The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.
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I just have to live my truth and know that it's okay to rock on my own vibration, because I'm me. I try to stand by that code, especially as a young Black woman in this industry. I try to walk the walk and talk the talk.
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I love to sing all kinds of music, but I know that my heart is for people to know God, and I want them to experience his love.
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If you want to change the world, first change your heart.
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I truly find such a sense of peace and calm when I'm working, and it's an inner peace that I've never been ever to achieve, doing anything else. It's where I feel most myself. I can access my power and strength, as an artist, and I can't imagine not doing it. I love it!
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I feel like my dream animal would be a mermaid that could fly and also live in the trees. She has a nest, almost like a bird. She feeds her babies like a bird, like, chews the food first and then feeds it to them through her mouth.
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When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness. In this hour divinely fresh and still, the fair face of every flower salutes me with a silent joy. . . . All the cares, perplexities, and griefs of existence, all the burdens of life slip from my shoulders and leave me with the heart of a little child that asks nothing beyond the present moment of innocent bliss.