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- Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.
- Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, The Bad Seed, 1992
- Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.
- Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, The Bad Seed, 1992
- If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before.
- Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Thanksgiving, 1992
- All Faith is false, all Faith is true:
Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own. - Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
- The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.
- Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Grosse Pointe 48230, 1993
- Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993
- They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers.
- David Assael, Northern Exposure, Family Feud, 1993
- God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president. Time, May 17: 25.
- Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Old Tree, 1993
- No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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