“Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.” NextParentBreakRightsGenerationsHappenedYouthInvolvedPatternsCivil RightsAccustomedNext GenerationStood Up Author:Octavia Spencer
“People tend to set themselves up in patterns; something happens, it hurts them, then something similar happens, and - it's happened again! It seems much bigger then, and they get worried and go through life looking for that thing, and because they're so concerned and looking for it, when anything that happens resembles that thing, they're sure it's happening again. So sometimes people think things are repeating even when they're not.” PeopleThinkingSometimesSeemsHappensHurtHappenedHappeningsConcernedBiggerPatternsThings HappenWorriedIt HurtsHappening Again Author:Mary Gaitskill
“Many heroic things happened during slavery. And remember that there was a national movement away from it even at the time. The era of Reconstruction and then the subsequent dismantling of Reconstruction sent us in a tailspin. Then we had the Civil Rights movement. Now we have our first non-white president. We have a pattern of moving apart and then coming back together throughout the history of this country. Each time, we come closer.” FirstsCountryTogetherRememberMovingPresidentWhiteRightsHappenedMovementSlaveryPatternsThings HappenCivil RightsErasHeroicComing BackCivil Rights MovementBack TogetherReconstruction Author:Wynton Marsalis
“You watched and you saw what happened and in the accumulation of episodes you saw the pattern: Daddy ruled the roost, called the shots, made the money, made the decisions, so you signed up on his side, and fifteen years later when the women's movement came along with its incendiary manifestos telling you to avoid marriage and motherhood, it was as if somebody put a match to a pile of dry kindling.” IfsYearsMadeSidesDecisionSawsHappenedMovementShotsPatternsMotherhoodDryEpisodesFifteenDaddyAccumulationFifteen YearsManifestosKindlingRoost Book:Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey Source: Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey
“I've been through legislation creating a dozen national parks, and there's always the same pattern. When you first propose a park, and you visit the area and present the case to the local people, they threaten to hang you. You go back in five years and they think it's the greatest thing that ever happened.” PeopleThinkingYearsFirstsCasesFiveHappenedCreatingAreasPatternsLocalsParksFive YearsDozenLegislationProposeNational Parks Author:Mo Udall
“At least to look back over their own lives, as I have looked back over mine, for certain themes and patterns and signals that are so easy to miss when you're caught up in the process of living them. If God speaks to us at all other than through such official channels as the Bible and the church, then I think he speaks to us largely through what happens to us, so listen to what has happened to you-for the sound, above all else, of his voice.” IfsThinkingLooksHappensCertainSpeakEasyProcessSoundVoiceChurchHappenedMissingMinesPatternsCaughtOfficialsThemeCaught UpSignals Author:Frederick Buechner