Gerard Woodward famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

This / is the use of trampolines / I will remember, the broken sunlight / Coming through the trees in a strange / Land, and lighting up my rising /Â And falling children, and their friends, /Â And the apples falling, / The new trees rising.
-- Gerard Woodward

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When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the result of something else. There is value in just being oneself, it is not because of something one does or doesn't do. It is there in the beginning, when we are children, but slowly it gets lost.
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.
Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string
When you fall for the one that owns you, sheâ€™ll be the only one that has the power to make you cry.
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

Gerard Woodward famous quotes

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