A Quote by NoViolet Bulawayo

When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky.

NoViolet Bulawayo

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NoViolet Bulawayo
Zimbabwean - Author
Born: December 10, 1981

When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky....They will never be the same again because you cannot be the same once you leave behind who and what you are, you just cannot be the same....Look at them leaving in droves, despite knowing they will be welcomed with restraint in those strange lands because they do not belong

NoViolet Bulawayo

Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.

John Green

Cursing themselves in ragged dreamsfire has singed the edges of,they know a slow dying the fields have come to terms with.Shimmering fans work against the heat& smell of gunpowder, making moneyfloat from hand to hand. The next momenta rocket pushes a white fistthrough night sky, & they scatter like birds& fall into the shape their liveshave become.

Yusef Komunyakaa

There wasn't a cloud in the sky, no wind, and everything was quiet around us - all we could hear were birds chirping in the woods. The war seemed like something in a faraway land that had nothing to do with us. We sang songs as we hiked up the hill, sometimes imitating the birds we heard. Except for the fact that the war was still going on, it was a perfect morning.

Haruki Murakami

I love it when celebrities fall apart, you want them to fall apart like Charlie Sheen.

Moby

Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.

Scott Westerfeld

She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.

Holly Black

We want to know what our self is. We are the sky. Our thoughts are the birds that come and go. You can enjoy the birds and their beauty, but it is the sky that lasts.

Frederick Lenz

Destroying green belt agricultural land for immediate economic gain is like burning your children's inheritance to cook a single meal

Phil Harding

We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy. (10)

Pema Chodron

Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.

Rumi

Trust in God's timing. It's better to have to wait a while and have things fall into place then to rush into something and have things fall apart.

Adam Cappa

Otherwise I'll fall apart. I'm going to fall apart. I am falling apart.

Tabitha Suzuma

You can never have too much sky . You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when you are sad. Here there is too much sadness and not enough sky. Butterflies too are few and so are flowers and most things that are beautiful. Still, we take what we can get and make the best of it.

Sandra Cisneros

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.

Marilyn Monroe

Tell the story, gather the events, repeat them. Pattern is a matter of upkeep. Otherwise the weave relaxes back to threads picked up by birds to make their nests. Repeat, or the story will fall and all the king's horses and all the king's men. . . . Repeat, and cradle the pieces carefully, or events will scatter like marbles on a wooden floor.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

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