#passage

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage. ↗

— Danny Glover

#almost #becoming #education #freedom #graduated

I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much. ↗

— Amy Grant

#allows #each #feel #fold #found

Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#blessings #climate #coal #easy #fertile

The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone. ↗

— Mark Doty

#fluidity #passage #time #world #change

Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#death #life #passage #time #death

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. ↗

— Balthus

#emotions #order #painting #passage #possible

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#already #any #ask #book #cannot

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#after #chapter #civil #civil liberties #close

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#belief #institutions #into #passage #power

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#clearly #gives #me #opportunity #passage