Charles E. Burchfield Quotes

Get yourself to a vantage point of seclusion and view the world with your eyes alone. Think of the infinite spaces of the skies and the world beneath.

Charles E. Burchfield

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• Forever will be you and me.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Forever
  • Being

• I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

  

  Lord Byron
  • Future
  • Always
  • Console

• So many are the deaths we die Before we can be dead indeed.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Death
  • Dies

• It's so important for people in political groups to learn the difference between productive criticism and not. When it's about something you can change, it's productive. But if it's just like "You are an evil person", you can't change that. There's no way around that.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Important
  • Political

• It is good people who make good places.

  

  Anna Sewell
  • Good People
  • Good Places

• I was told that my diet was so poor that I could not repair the bones that were broken and operated on. So I have just had an Xradiograph taken; and lo! perfectly mended solid bone so beautifully white that I have left instructions that, if I die, a glove stretcher is to be made of me and sent to you as a souvenir...

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Bones
  • Diet
  • Repair

• My mom and I were super close when I was a kid, her and I sort of ran off from her ex-husband. It wasn't such a good time for us and I remember listening to The Distillers with her. One time I actually asked her, 'Mom, can I shave my head into a mohawk?'

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • Remember
  • Kid
  • My Mom

• Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Nature
  • Treated
  • Rebellion

• It is some kind of miracle that all knitting is constructed of only two stitches: knit and purl. Sure, you throw in some yarn overs, and sometimes you knit the stitches out of order, but when it really comes down to it, knitting is simplicity. The most incredible gossamer lace shawl ... the trickiest aran ... a humble sock ... each just made with knit and purl.

  

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • Kind
  • Sometimes
  • Miracle

• I believe in the fire of love and the sweat of truth.

  

  Assata Shakur
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Truth

• There are moments where history is made... This is one of those moments.

  

  David M. Louie
  • History
  • Moments
  • Made

• Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Blood
  • Race
  • Hearts

• When Jesus invites sinners, 'Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest,' he immediately adds,'take my yoke upon you, and learn from me' (Matt. 11:28-29). To come to him includes taking his yoke upon us, being subject to his direction and guidance, learning from him and being obedient to him. If we are unwilling to make such a commitment, then we have not truly placed our trust in him.

  

  Wayne Grudem
  • Commitment
  • Subjects
  • Guidance

• I chose to be a photographer twenty-two years ago, but I don't know that I'd make that choice again. Back in the early eighties, I still thought I was doing okay, trying to order and shape the world with my camera. Now that I know a bit more about living and dying, about our planet and its complex problems, I'm a lot less comfortable with my images of people. Still, I haven't a clue what else to do.

  

  Eugene Richards
  • Problem
  • Choice
  • Camera

• I believe it is not a question of whether or not we support tax cuts, ... It really is a question of what we can afford to do now in the current economic and fiscal climate.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Believe
  • Support
  • Question

• A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Negative
  • Photograph
  • Exists

• History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • History
  • Majority
  • Seclusion

• To die, so young to die. No, no, not I, I love the warm sunny skies, light, song, shining eyes, I want no war, no battle cry, No, no, not I.

  

  Hannah Szenes
  • Song
  • Light
  • Skies

• Get yourself to a vantage point of seclusion and view the world with your eyes alone. Think of the infinite spaces of the skies and the world beneath.

  

  Charles E. Burchfield
  • Skies
  • Spaces
  • Seclusion