“Looking back into childhood is like looking into a semi-transparent globe within which people and places lie embedded. A shake - and they stir, rise up, circle in inter-weaving groups, then settle down again.” PeoplePastLyingGroupsChildhoodCirclesSettlingShakesGlobesLooking BackTransparentEmbeddedSettling DownWeaving Book:The ballad and the source Source: The ballad and the source
“Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!” IfsWantHumansStillsRealShowsLightPastHuman BeingsCitiesStreetsWallStandingCirclesEmptinessDusk Book:Old Wine: A Novel Source: Old Wine: A Novel
“Life is made up of circles ... Life is not a straight line ... And sometimes we circle back to a past time. But we are not the same. We are changed forever.” LifeMadeSometimesPastLife IsLinesForeverChangedCirclesStraight Lines Book:Baby Source: Baby
“Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.” StoriesPastFormEducationalCirclesPast And PresentEducational SystemScholastics Author:Carter G. Woodson
“A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken.” MenWorldYearsEarthPastTimeOrderHoursSleepBrokenCirclesThreadArousalTimes Past Author:Marcel Proust