There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.
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Related All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. TONI MORRISON Conspiracy of Ideas;Idea always conspire with the mind never to return to it's original state,once i... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD How to get it, I annoy you??? You are not interested??? What's the idea??? DEYTH BANGER It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK I'm just not into trying to convince people like me. I always say to myself, 'It is what it ... NENE LEAKES 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO The land is always there...it is you who has to return MUNIA KHAN The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We plan to put it back together and then get it in the water. Once it's in the water we'll figure ou... DON BRAHAM How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER People want the here and now, rather than the there and after; as most are living in the where and w... ANTHONY LICCIONE You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson... DEYTH BANGER You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA In six years, this was not the first time they had found themselves in such a compromising posi... JACQUELINE FRANCIS - WANTING TO REMEMBER, TRYING TO FORGET It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Used to be. It is changing. It has changed so much in ten years. The novelty has worn off for me, I ... ROB WRIGHT Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time... , ALWAYS NOW, 1997 I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa... ERIK GRIFFIN I was studying with Peter Carey, Colum McCann; but also, my fellow students were really critical rea... PHIL KLAY What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc... CHRISTIAN BOBIN When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you. CRAIG GROESCHEL Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. EDMUND BURKE Of the original 12, eight decided to return and bring a friend or family with them, ... The growth h... BILL CAMP Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL We know what it's like, we've always been close (to getting back there). That is our goal, to make i... FRANK PIETRANGELO I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what... HARRY STYLES The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK I have a lot of friends and family in Orlando so it's always great to get back down there. I'm ridin... DAVI MILLSAPS It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid... KURT VONNEGUT I just feel like a kid that has some money now, that can take care of my family... I think I'll ... BILLY HORSCHEL You're the creator of your own future. Get to writing. ASHLEY BROOKE ROBBINS Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to gr... EDWIDGE DANTICAT To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Non. Tu n'es plus le maître anonyme du monde, celui sur qui l'histoire n'avait pas de prise, celui ... GEORGES PEREC When I think about it, I look back on the frustrating moments that we have had trying to break throu... JACK INGRAM Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON It's like in baseball when you get a hold of one. You don't take any of the absorption, you're givin... MARK CAMPBELL If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD To me, it's always a joy to create music no matter what it takes to actually get there. The real... SKRILLEX There’s no need to sharpen your pencils any more. Even the dull ones can make a mark. ZE FRANK He was already fading. I knew that it wouldn't be long until he was just a vague image, however much... CAROLINE GREEN He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. PITTACUS LORE Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it. LEMONY SNICKET If you have experienced a real happiness before, you will all the time hope to get that experience o... EPHDAN The World Series mattered a tremendous amount then and now. It always has been and always will be. I... BILLY PIERCE Once that water is used, it's not going to come back. Whether it's better to use it now or save it f... BROWNIE WILSON We try to guard against things like this, ... We always say patient autonomy is paramount, but I hav... JACK KEVORKIAN Romance is like having to go through security at airports in order to get on the plane. BOBBY W. MILLER It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, ... PAULO COELHO When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g... GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a... GARY F EVANS... If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people w... EDGAR RAMIREZ It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, ... PAULO COELHO It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive... DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... STEVEN STRAIT You love me,” he said. “That’s all I need to know.” “You always say the right thing,... SUZANNE BROCKMANN This was always our work. We're just trying to get back what was ours. BOBBY PACE The greed is back, that's always under the surface. The speculation is back and people are trying to... FRANCIS GASKINS The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been... IAN MCEWAN It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic. DEBASISH MRIDHA We don't want to have a huge surge of water. We are always aware of erosion and what the power of wa... BILL CLIFFORD It's a great story for the whole family, with beautiful songs and lots of funny things happening. It... LORI KNICKERBOCKER We didn’t think anything of it at the time, but we saw several of the bodies of the crew, space pi... CHRISTINA ENGELA Don't squander beautiful moments by always trying to snap the perfect picture or record the even... RACHEL NICHOLS He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,... LAURIE FRANKEL Try, try, and try again. Never stop trying. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA There's tons of members of the Carradine family. It's more like a clan than it is like a fam... DAVID CARRADINE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS There are always runs and spurts, and once we got it going we got a lot of confidence. I like it whe... CANDICE WIGGINS To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who t... CRISTIANO RONALDO Being clingy may work for puppies, but not for you. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Needing to express what it’s like here.... / Trying to digest the incoming stream .... / And dream... JAY WOODMAN Once humankind has been some place and found it entrancing, they always go back, ... I think in the ... TOM HANKS It's obviously tough to get back into the groove again after a tough loss and (Christmas) holidays. ... JEFF STOUGHTON We've always been the kind of people who like to help others. Now, it has been just one thing after ... DEBRA GILL Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back... RANATA SUZUKI Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... 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BRYAN MCCANN I have offers from UAB , SMU , Northwestern and Stanford, ... Stanford offered toward the end of my ... BRYAN MCCANN [Devine] is going to be a great pitcher in this league someday, BRIAN MCCANN It was greatest moment I've ever had on the baseball field. Everything just felt right, and it was a... BRIAN MCCANN You never expect to hit a home run off a guy like that, ... He's the best pitcher in baseball. He's ... BRIAN MCCANN He threw the ball OK. In the second inning, he wasn't hitting his locations like he wanted to. But h... BRIAN MCCANN I was going to go up hacking, ... Pitcher on deck. Two outs. He can start throwing his dirtiest stuf... BRIAN MCCANN He's just a starting pitcher. He's got three pitches, and he can throw them all for strikes. With hi... BRIAN MCCANN I tried to hurry up the throw and it sailed on me. It's terrible. BRIAN MCCANN has calluses older than McCann. The kid was 83 days old when Clemens broke in with the Red Sox. He w... 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We're happy with nine, I feel bad for Sammy (Mart... KEVIN MCCANN I was a lumberjack for years, a pub bouncer, I've sung in a band; in fact, I still sing, and I e... RORY MCCANN I'm on my boat, training, rehearsing; I spend all my energy on the job that's coming up, and... RORY MCCANN I'm just about to move to a place that you can only get there by rowing a boat across a loch, wh... RORY MCCANN So much is yet to come. Soon will be blankets and pillows, and books by the bed to make the stuff of... JIM MCCANN Our mentality is that we're going to play the same if it's the seventh game of the World Series or a... BRIAN MCCANN You know, he's one of the greatest pitchers of all time. Just to get a pitch up, out over the plate,... BRIAN MCCANN We'll just have to regroup and come back next year. We're really not thinking about next year right ... BRIAN MCCANN Pressure wasn't the problem. Everyone has pressure on them at this level. He threw really well. If w... 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JACK MCCANN It's extraordinarily difficult. It forces challengers to be extremely creative or have deep pockets ... JAMES MCCANN It's vitally important that we succeed and continue to raise money, JAMES MCCANN A lot of different things go into the mix when determining whether or not Roberts is confirmed. The ... JAMES MCCANN The senators will want to ask about views on presidential powers, women's rights and minorities, bec... JAMES MCCANN has a problem with that. JAMES MCCANN God cuts out our path, makes a groove in the clay with His finger, and we poor blind ants slide down... MARIA MCCANN We try to look at what events may occur that will involve Army forces. LYNNE MCCANN This is a larger effort within the Defense Department for language studies and cultural awareness. T... LYNNE MCCANN Our cemeteries are very unique and I know when people come to New Orleans, tourists and all, they lo... 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