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«Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.»

Author: James Arthur Baldwin (Essayist, Novelist, Playwright) | Keywords: Back to, destroys, innocence, leads

«Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to»

Author: John Ed Pearce | About: Home | Keywords: back, Back to, get back, grow, grow up, home, homing, leave, old, place, take home, to get, wanting

«Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.»

Author: Mary Bly | About: Animals | Keywords: Back to, called, call back, cats, dogs, get back, later, message

«For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.»

Author: Paula Cole | About: Anger, Compassion, Music, Pain | Keywords: Back to, compassion, humble, luck, luck it, on the spot, spot, surface, tender, to that, vehicle

«God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted.»

Author: Stephen Crotts | About: God | Keywords: and then, back, Back to, Between the Lines, bring, correct, edit, edited, editing, edits, edit out, hand, in line, line, line up, On Line, over, prayers, rights, Right Back

«A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.»

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer) | About: Mind | Keywords: Back to, dimensions, go back, stretched

«If a ragnar?k would burn all the slums and gas-works, and shabby garages, and long arc-lit suburbs, it could for me burn all the works of art ? and I'd go back to trees..»

Author: J.R.R. Tolkien (Author, Writer) | Keywords: arc, arcs, Back to, burn, garages, gas, gases, go back, I go, lit, shabbier, shabby, slum, slumming, slums, suburb, suburbs, The Works, trees

«As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.»

Author: Jack Handy (Writer) | Keywords: and how, Back to, caught, color, evening, faded, Flint, flints, gray, grayer, grays, named, salmon, sort, sort of

«Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.»

Author: Leonardo da Vinci (Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor) | Keywords: appears, back away, Back to, come back, distance, every now and then, glance, glanced, glances, glancing, go away, harmony, judgment, lack, now and then, proportion, readily, relaxation, seen, smaller, surer, taken

«A kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.»

Author: Sun Tzu (Author, General) | Keywords: Back to, brought, dead, destroyed, kingdom, Once and Again, The Dead

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