Seesaw Quotes

• For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Graduation, Future, Eye

  "Locksley Hall" l. 119 (1842)

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• Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither up nor down, but upness and downness flow through it while it remains unmoved. You had to be the centre of the seesaw so the pain flowed through you, not into you. It was very hard. But she could do it!

  Terry Pratchett

  Pain, Balance, Firsts

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• Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.

  Diane Ackerman

  Moving, Lines, Crystals

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• Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.”  - - Unknown
  “Racism rests upon and functions as a kind of seesaw: the persecutor rises by debasing and inferiorizing his victim.

  Albert Memmi

  Color, Racism, Kind

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• The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.

  Dylan Thomas

  Sex, Lying, Sea

  Dylan Thomas (1975). “Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices”

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• I'm over dey heads like a bulemic on a seesaw

  Nas

  Hip Hop

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• History isn't a seesaw. If you have a really bad regime on one side, the actions on the other side don't automatically become good. It doesn't work that way.

  Nicholson Baker

  Way, Sides, Action

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.

  Anne Lamott

  Hurt, Brother, Book

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• Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for Seesaw Girl, eight months for Shard, three years for When My Name Was Keoko! The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish.

  Linda Sue Park

  Girl, Book, Taken

  Scholastic Interview, www.scholastic.com.

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• And on seesaw Sunday nights, I'd woo who ever I would with my wicked eye!

  Dylan Thomas

  Eye, Sunday, Night

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• If you're being chased by a police dog, try not to go through a tunnel, then on to a little seesaw, then jump through a hoop of fire. They're trained for that!

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Dog, Humor

  FaceBook post by Milton Jones from Dec 27, 2011

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• The best of all possible marriages is a seesaw in which first one, then the other partner is dominant.

  Joyce Brothers

  Firsts, Partners, Dominant

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• S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth of invention: At night when your soldiers are praying ceaselessly for less rain and more underwear my soldiers make underwear out of rain. These poems seesaw between despair and delight but delight is winning the battle. Smith is a somersaulting tightrope walker of a poet and her poems will make you look at anything and everything with new eyes: For days I tried to rub the new freckle // off my hand until I realized what it was / and began to grant it its sovereignty.

  Matthea Harvey

  Rain, Eye, Simple

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• I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called "Seesaw." I came offstage and heard the applause of the theater audience and felt a sense of accomplishment. Around that time, my role model for success was Burt Lancaster. He was one of the first actors in Hollywood to start his own production company, and I respected him because he created something he believed in.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Successful, Accomplishment, Role Models

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In Seesaw, I played Gittel Mosca, and because it was a musical, I loved it more because I was able to do anything. I was able to use all parts of me that I dont get to use... the comedy and the singing and the dancing.

  Michele Lee

  Dancing, Musical, Singing

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