Glimpses Quotes

On his wartime experiences: "As to what a fellow thinks when he`s scared, I guess it`s the same with anyone. You get fleeting glimpses in your mind of your home, your wife, the baby you want to see. You see so clearly all the mistakes you made. You want another chance to correct those mistakes. You wonder how you could have attached so much importance to ridiculous, meaningless things in your life. But before you get to thinking too much, you`re off into action and everything else is forgotten."

My father was a scientist for the Forest Service. He would drive me through the woods in his green Forest Service truck, over dirt roads, through the most beautiful forests where the trees are very tall and shafts of sunlight come down and in the mountain streams the rainbow trout leap out and their little trout sides catch glimpses of light. Then my father would drop me in the woods and go off. It was a weird, comforting feeling being in the woods. There were odd, mysterious things. That`s the kind of world I grew up in.

I got excited just watching the glimpses of things to come.

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

I think we`ve seen a few glimpses of that with Ricky and myself both being in the backfield at the same time, ... Ricky`s had success on this level. For myself, it`s good being in a game with somebody that can draw attention and take a little bit of attention away from me.

We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been '” a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time. Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power. Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when