Quote

Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun.

Andrea Gibson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Every
Always
Gun
Safety
Safe
Find

More quotes by Andrea Gibson

Image
How many wars will it take us to learn that only the dead return?
Andrea Gibson
Image
If love did not exist, I would be so goddamn sane.
Andrea Gibson
Image
Touch me 'til my ribs become piano keys.
Andrea Gibson
Image
We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.
Andrea Gibson
Image
And we were Banksy on an overpass in New Orleans spray-painting porch lights on the hurricane. We were welcome mats for the un-forgiven. We never sold our windpipes to make a living. We were the letters sent to the wrong address, but opened anyway. We opened anyway.
Andrea Gibson
Image
I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you’re feeling good. I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you’re feeling bad. I wanna know the first person who taught you your beauty could ever be reflected on a lousy piece of glass.
Andrea Gibson
Image
A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyon from the moon.
Andrea Gibson
Image
My heart is still a leather jacket I am waiting to give to someone sweet.
Andrea Gibson
Image
You can stand on the cliff of my heart and shout nothing but ‘ugly’ through me. I promise all I will echo back is ‘Beauty, beauty, you have always been beauty
Andrea Gibson
Image
If a tree fell in the forest, and you were the only one there to hear it if its fall to the ground didn’t make a sound, would you panic in fear that you didn’t exist, or would you bask in the bliss of your nothingness?
Andrea Gibson
Image
When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.
Andrea Gibson
Image
...And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape you’re marching towards. Everyone knows what you’re against show them what you’re for.
Andrea Gibson
Image
Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.
Andrea Gibson
Image
Hey, are you a boy or a — never mind, can I have a push on the swing?” And some day, y’all, when we grow up, it’s all gonna be that simple.
Andrea Gibson
Image
So guess what, if I ever have my own team I am picking everyone first even the worst kid and the kid with the stutter like a skipping record 'cause I know all of us are scratched, even if you can't hear it when we speak.
Andrea Gibson
Image
I’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I’d write love poems to the parts of yourself you can’t stand. I’d stand in the shadows of your heart and tell you I’m not afraid of your dark.
Andrea Gibson
Image
Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.
Andrea Gibson
Image
We have to create it is the only thing louder than destruction.
Andrea Gibson
Image
We were all born on days when too many people died in terrible ways, but you still have to call it a birthday.
Andrea Gibson
Image
But whatever However Whenever this ends I want you to know That right now I love you forever
Andrea Gibson