Arlington Quotes

• I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.

  Alan Hovhaness

  Years, Childhood, Remember

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• And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Cry, Ends, Comes And Goes

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (1975). “Uncollected poems and prose of Edwin Arlington Robinson”

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• Your Dollar is your only Word, / The wrath of it your only fear. / You build it altars tall enough / To make you see, but your are blind; / You cannot leave it long enough / To look before you or behind.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Wrath, Long, Dollars

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (1966). “Selected poems”

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• I shall have more to say when I am dead.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Death, Expression

  "John Brown" l. 199 (1920)

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• I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  God, Thinking, Names

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• Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Youth, Seeing

  Edwin Arlington Robinson, James P. Carley (1990). “Edwin Arlington Robinson”, p.255, Boydell & Brewer

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• Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Love, Wings, Fly Away

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (1927). “Merlin”

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• To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Heaven, Ifs

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (1966). “Selected poems”

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• For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think; and no man knows what then she may discover.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Love, Men, Thinking

  Edwin Arlington Robinson, James P. Carley (1990). “Edwin Arlington Robinson”, p.319, Boydell & Brewer

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• Life is the game that must be played.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Life, Games, Phantoms

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works and Plays of Edwin Arlington Robinson (Illustrated)”, p.90, Delphi Classics

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• The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  God, Spiritual, Block

  Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edith Brower (1968). “Edwin Arlington Robinson's letters to Edith Brower”, Belknap Press

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• Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works and Plays of Edwin Arlington Robinson (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

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• Their sacrifice was great, but not in vain. All Americans and every free nation on earth can trace their liberty to the white markers of places like Arlington National Cemetery. And may God keep us ever grateful.

  George W. Bush

  Memorial Day, Grateful, Sacrifice

  George W. Bush Honors the Brave and Fallen Defenders of Freedom in Arlington, Virginia, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 26, 2003.

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• I was reading Emily Dickinson and Edwin Arlington Robinson, but these weren't the poets that influenced me. I think Gwendolyn Brooks influenced me because she wrote about Chicago, and she wrote about poor people. And she influenced me in my life by giving me a blurb. I would see her in action, and she listened to every single person. She didn't say, "Oh, I'm tired. I gotta go." She was there, and present, with every single person. She's one of the great teachers.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Teacher, Reading, Tired

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. September 28, 2006.

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• Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Dad, Military, Buried

  Buzz Aldrin, Ken Abraham (2009). “Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon”, p.147, Crown Archetype

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• I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests with ZERO-G [a charter-flight service in Arlington, Va., that uses modified Boeing 727s to simulate weightlessness], which went great.

  Richard Branson

  Zero, Adventure, Phoenix

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• As president, Clinton sold burial plots in Arlington Cemetery and liberals shrugged it off. What really gets their goat is the autopen. Evidently, the important thing was that every one of those pardons Clinton sold for cash on his last day in office was signed by Bill Clinton personally.

  Ann Coulter

  Office, Important, President

  "Happy Giving Tree Festival To All, And To All A Good Night!". www.anncoulter.com. December 22, 2004.

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• There's not a yes or no answer to that. We want to prepare as a team to be as good as we can be out of the gate. If two months into the season or when Roger makes a decision to come to Arlington, I'd love to sit down with Buck and decide whose spot he takes. In reality so much happens during the course of the season, I don't see it as a problem.

  Jon Daniels

  Team, Reality, Two

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