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Diane Ackerman Quotes

The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature.

Diane Ackerman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: October 7, 1948

Topics

Nature Alone Balance Present Protect

I grew up in a low-income family. I was raised by a single mother.

Jessica Chastain

Family Mother Single Up I Was Raised

Like many other people of my generation, I don't think I ever really bothered to grow up. I wasn't ever really a proper teenager until I was about 19, and maybe I got a bit stuck there, because it seemed to go on and on.

Meg Rosoff

People Think Generation Grow Go Up

I don't think I met an actual Mormon until college, and by that time, I was wary of them. I knew about the church through school and, secondhand, through non-Mormon friends.

Robert Lopez

Time School College Think Church

A handy pair of tweezers go a long way. You never know when you're going to have to pluck out a few of those eyebrow hairs. Keep the tweezers in the purse!

Sufe Bradshaw

Long You Go Know Way Never

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

Roger Penrose

Morality Question Up Consciousness

It is the natural order of things that successive generations will achieve more than their predecessors.

Dominic Holland

Achieve Will More Order Things Than

I do have a tendency to talk a lot at the poker table, which throws people off because they spend a lot of time trying to read me. But I talk a lot when I have a good hand and when I have a bad hand, too. Sometimes it annoys people so much they can't wait to get out of the tournament. And that can only be good for me.

Cheryl Hines

Good Time People Me Wait Bad

When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Faith Words Rise Said Done More

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

Philip Zimbardo

Family Alone Childhood School Me

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do.

Paul Weller

Being Get Layers One Thing Just

You have to look for story. That's obvious. If that's not on the page, you can forget it. But I also read whatever character I'm being offered. And if you can cut them out without it affecting the story, then I say no straight away.

Liam Cunningham

Character Story You Look Forget Say

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

Julie Burchill

Life Smile Death Tears Perfect Mark