Alexandra Bracken Quotes

Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun. It is this backward motion toward the source, Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in, The tribute of the current to the source. It is from this in nature we are from. It is most us.

Almost everything comes from almost nothing.

Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.

How far, in any case, must one go back to find the beginning?

I have often found a small stream at its fountain-head, that, when followed up, carried away the camel with his load.

Everything comes from the great book of nature.

Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"

My wife will buy anything marked down. Last year she bought an escalator.

All is born of water; all is sustained by water.

It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.

If you try to find your source, you are not going to find it in a tiny little particle that began with your parents commingling.

I hate to shop. I consider it one of life's necessary evils, like brussels sprouts and high-heeled shoes.

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.

Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the everywhere and into here.

Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.

You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.

Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.

You came from a source.

It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent.

Since I was cut from the reedbed I have made this crying sound. Anyone separated from someone he loves understands what I say. Anyone pulled from a Source longs to go back.

I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

The biggest questions that always have perplexed me are "Where do I come from?" and "Where am I going?" The "Where do I come from?" question, which I think I largely am answering now, is about what quantum physics teaches us. If you try to find your source, you are not going to find it in a tiny little particle that began with your parents commingling.