Crouch End Quotes

#1. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened. - T. S. Eliot, "Burnt Norton

Blake Crouch

#2. Simon Cameron: I loved my brother, as only the poor and lonely can love those with whom they have toiled and struggled up the rugged hill of life's success - but he died bravely in the discharge of his duty.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#3. But I'll tell you what I do wish. Wish we could live twice, take a different path each time. That at the end of all this, when I finished serving God in the West, I could go back to that day on the beach, put a ring on Eleanor's finger instead.

Blake Crouch

#4. Earthly nature may be parsimonious, but the human mind is prodigal, itself an anomaly that in its wealth of error as well as of insight is exceptional, utterly unique as far as we know, properly an object of wonder.

Marilynne Robinson

#5. Like the first day of any new thing, it has been a long one, and he's glad to see it end.

Blake Crouch

#6. So we all embark wondering what lies over the horizon, what's around the next bend. And isn't that, in the end, what drives us?

Blake Crouch

#7. A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.

Tim Crouch

#8. I've seen so many versions of you. With me. Without me. Artist. Teacher. Graphic designer. But it's all, in the end, just life. We see it macro, like one big story, but when you're in it, it's all just day-to-day, right? And isn't that what you have to make your peace with?

Blake Crouch

#9. I often try to photograph things about a person that are not visible.

Duane Michals

#10. Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

Tim Crouch

#11. [Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite optimism.

Gilda Radner

#12. The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.

Stanley Crouch

#13. Our essential role is to produce ever more sophisticated tools - to "fecundate" machines as bees fecundate plants - until technology has developed the capacity to reproduce itself on its own. At that point, we become dispensable.

Anonymous