Walking Together Quotes

• The most wonderful thing, Mary, is that you and I are always walking together, hand in hand, in a strangely beautiful world, unknown to other people. We both stretch one hand to receive from Life - and Life is generous indeed.

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  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful   Hands   People  

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• A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.

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  Anne Lamott

  Dark   Light   Together  

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• Just a rock, a dome of snow, the deep blue sky, and a hunk of orange-painted metal from which a shredded American flag cracked in the wind. Nothing more. Except two tiny figures walking together those last few feet to the top of the Earth.

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  Tom Hornbein

  Nature   Travel   Orange  

  Peter Potterfield, Tom Hornbein (2003). “Everest”, p.141, The Mountaineers Books

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• And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?

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  Jess Walter

  Together   Enough   Sunlight  

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• What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

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  O. Henry

  Moving   Two   Together  

  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.194, ShandonPress

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• When we come to the table, we shouldn't negotiate right away. We should spend time walking together, eating together, making acquaintance, telling each other about our own suffering, without blame or condemnation. It takes maybe one, two, three weeks to do that. And if communication and understanding are possible, negotiation will be easier. So if I am to organize a peace negotiation, I will organize it in that way.

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  Nhat Hanh

  Communication   Two   Eating Together  

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• The racial question, and thus class struggle, of course, I think they are processes which necessarily are intersecting all the time. I understand that there are moments they disassociate, but in the end they are things that go walking together practically all the time.

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  Bocafloja

  Struggle   Thinking   Class  

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• This is what marriage is all about - Man and woman walking together, wherein the husband helps his wife to become ever more a woman, and wherein the woman has the task of helping her husband to become ever more a man.

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  Pope Francis

  Husband   Men   Wife  

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• More poignant for us, at Laetoli in Tanzania are the companionable footprints of three real hominids, probably Australopithecus afarensis, walking together 3.6 million years ago in what was then fresh volcanic ash. Who does not wonder what these individuals were to each other, whether they held hands or even talked, and what forgotten errand they shared in a Pliocene dawn?

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  Richard Dawkins

  Real   Hands   Years  

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• Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

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  Helen Keller

  Best Friend   Friendship   True Friend  

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