- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
New Quotes
On fresh starts, new cities and beginning again.
Many of the quotes here trace what's new: a new city, a new circle of people, a new chapter after school. Several reflect specifically on relocating and adjusting to a very different pace of life. For more on that theme, see our City quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got divorced, it was another culture shock. It was going from this world I had been into since the age of 16 to literally standing on the streets of New York in kind of shock.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I arrived at the Capitol in 2007 to take my oath as a new member of the U.S. House of Representatives, I had the privilege of filling the seat held for so long and so well by my friend Patsy Takemoto Mink, the first Asian-American woman elected to Congress. I was so grateful to her.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of us look forward to the start of a new year as a clean slate. We reflect on the past 12 months, take stock of where we are, and make new resolutions about how to improve in the coming year.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want our country to be like other countries in Europe in having a challenge to integrate their new immigrants.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been adopted by the millennials, and I'm enjoying every minute of it! I'm learning a new language.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, there were really only two possible futures in the foreground, which were Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World'.
- Favorite Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love finding and doing new things and trying stuff out; that's my favorite thing to do.
- Easter
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- Nov 07, 2020
My passion was to be on Broadway and to be part of this community because I saw what it was like from the outside as the young kid in and around New York, and I would see things like the 'Easter Bonnet' or 'Broadway Bares,' things I would sneak into.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the Bible to see how what God did as revealed in the New Testament will reveal to them their own personal story.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every city which is different from that of another city. He hears in each little brook a new melody, and to him the sound of wind in the treetops of different forests give a varying sound.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020