#separation

My mom was sitting at the kitchen table. She’d set her coffee down, making a noise that made me look her way. I’d begun to notice her less and less often, like her colors were fading and blending in with walls. She was shrinking. Or maybe her sphere of influence in the family was shrinking. My dad glanced at her, too, and then wrote something on a napkin. He slid it across the counter to me—Don’t worry. Come home in one piece. Have fun and act like a sixteen-year-old for a change. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#family #glass-girl #grief #laura-anderson-kurk #love

I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there's not a separation between me singing and me playing the guitar. The two fed off the other. ↗

— Shawn Colvin

#come #consider #fed #first #guitar

There's no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there's been a melding in their goals when it comes to the separation of church and state. I've always believed in the separation of church and state. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#bed #been #believed #christian #christian right

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares. ↗

— William Law

#cares #certainly #christian #christian life #death

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God. ↗

— William Law

#hath #nothing #our #own #rather

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#between #cultures #found #i #musically

News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state. ↗

— Leslie Moonves

#argument #been #between #church #constantly

But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government. ↗

— Roy Moore

#god #government #meant #never #separate

The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power. ↗

— Roy Moore

#balances #basic #because #checks #constitution

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now. ↗

— Van Morrison

#i #more #now #people #playing