Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Ruth Ann Oskolkoff

Quote by Ruth Ann Oskolkoff

Work

Voyage to the Sun: A Children's Version of the Tao te Ching

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Ruth Ann Oskolkoff

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Ruth Ann Oskolkoff. more

You May Also Like

“Throughout my days on Earth, I have gone by a myriad of names. I seasonally got wind of epithets such as a rootless strider, a hammer lacking a head, a trampled idealist, and in most instances a hopeless dreamer. And yet: One cannot bring a fantasist back to ground by such utterings. Words for him are like indistinct silhouettes above a sea. Seagulls that disappear into a morning fog. They will erode like statues of stone and abate like the men who built them. A dreamer’s hope can only succumb at the dawn of a more brilliant, precious one.”

“But in her head, she believed what Einstein had suggested. The enigma of The Universe itself was answered in mathematics. Mushing was all about timing. It was about the rhythm of dog and man - synchronicity of movement, elegance. And sometimes, the movement of her bow across the strings of her violin reminded her of the swish and glide of the runners on a sled ride in the snow.”