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Quotes of the Day for 13 January 2005 - Patterns

As I was casting about for a theme, Larkin stuck her head into my office to ask how I was coming with the artwork for her patterns. Oops! I hadn't touched the project all day. So I quickly determined that I would make patterns the theme so I could get on with some drafting.

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.
     - Henri Estienne, 1528 - 1598

Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no matter how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.
     - Sholem Asch, 1880 - 1957

Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?
     - Margot Fonteyn, 1919 - 1991

Each child is an adventure into a better life; an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
     - Hubert H. Humphrey, 1911 - 1978

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it; this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
     - Henry James, 1843 - 1916

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.
     - Fred Rogers

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