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We bloggers like a good quote, don't we?

This group is for your favourite quotations, and i'm not just talking about things you read in Bartlett's. It could be an inspirational excerpt from an ancient text; a memorable line from a movie; advice an old school teacher gave that stuck with you. It can even be something you overheard at the bus stop this morning.

Send a photo to accompany your quote; record it on your phone and MMS the audio file; vox-pop yourself speaking the powerful words on video. You can even just SMS it in (but that would need to be a pretty short quote. 160 characters max!)

If you tag the posts, perhaps we can build up a searchable bank of our own favourite words, phrases, quotations...

You get the picture. Join the group and get quoting. You can quote me on that.

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Remembrance

Remembrance
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If we return, will England be
Just England still to you and me?
The place where we must earn our bread?
We, who have walked among the dead....




I posted this to the Twiglet Zone last November for Remembrance Sunday.
I have a huge interest in the literature of WW1 but these words by F W
Harvey are among my favourites. Possibly because he writes of returning
when so many of the poets of the time wrote not surprisingly of death.
These lines are from a longer poem but taken alone have an almost
ghostly quality along with the belief that it would be impossible to
resume *normal* life.

Posted by Twiglet

9th Nov 2008, 08:35   | tags:,,,,,,comments (4)

Bicycles

Bicycles
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When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. ~H.G. Wells

Posted by taniwha

29th Oct 2008, 10:20   comments (0)

From *Rebecca*

From *Rebecca*
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"We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still
too close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us
would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest, struggling
at length to blind unreasoning panic - now mercifully stilled, thank God
- might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion, as it had
been before."

Posted by Twiglet

23rd Oct 2008, 20:16   | tags:,,comments (1)

Sunset

Sunset
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"After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks
out again, And touching all the darksome woods with light, Smiles on the
fields until they laugh and sing, Then like a ruby from the horizon's
ring, Drops down into the night."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Posted by Twiglet

13th Oct 2008, 13:46   | tags:,,comments (0)

The feeling

The feeling
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"Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"
- John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) January 14, 1978, Winterland Ballroom, San
Fransisco, CA

Posted by ookiine

8th Oct 2008, 23:11   comments (4)

Two Kinds of People

Two Kinds of People
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"There are two kinds of people in the world.

1) Scottish people.

2) People who wish they were Scottish."

Posted by goode

8th Oct 2008, 11:33   | tags:,,,comments (3)

From Autumn Journal

From Autumn Journal
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September has come, it is hers
Whose vitality leaps in the autumn,
Whose nature prefers
Trees without leaves and a fire in the fire-place;
So I give her this month and the next
Though the whole of my year should be hers
who has rendered already
So many of its days intolerable or perplexed
But so many more so happy;
Who has left a scent on my life and left my walls
Dancing over and over with her shadow,
Whose hair is twined in all my waterfalls
And all of London littered with remembered
kisses.

From Autumn Journal by Louis Nacneice

This is a re post. I posted this pic with these words on the Twiglet
zone last September. This year there is added poignancy for me in the
last line. I miss London's streets and especially the parks as the
season changes to Autumn.

Posted by Twiglet

13th Sep 2008, 10:20   | tags:,,,comments (0)

This country

This country
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"This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it." - Vine Deloria Jr., 1970

*Vine Deloria Jr. was Standing Rock Lakota. http://www.standingrock.org/

Posted by Caine

7th Sep 2008, 07:20   comments (0)
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