Famous quotes containing the words redeeming, social and/or importance:
“Now you rise,
a city from the sea,
born long before Alexandria was,
straightway from God you have come
into your redeeming skin.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)
“The importance of a lost romantic vision should not be underestimated. In such a vision is power as well as joy. In it is meaning. Life is flat, barren, zestless, if one can find one’s lost vision nowhere.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 19 (1962)
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