Jeremy Kagan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A renowned genius once asked a student, "What are you watching when you sit on a hillside in the late afternoon as the colors turn from yellow to orange and red and finally darkness?" He answered, "You are watching the sunset." The genius responded, "That is what is wrong with our age. You know full well you are not watching the sun set. You are watching the world turn."
-- Jeremy Kagan

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That is what is wrong with our age. You know full well you are not watching the sun set. You are watching the world turn.
-- Jeremy Kagan

#Age #World #Sun

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
I run because I enjoy it â€” not always, but most of the time. I run because I have always run â€” not trained, but run. What do I get? Joy and pain. Good health and injuries. Exhilaration and despair. A feeling of accomplishment and a feeling of waste. The sunrise and the sunset.
Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.
White pill, blue pill, yellow pill, purple pill; its like swallowing a rainbow every bedtime.
My character was obnoxious, had stinky feet and wore things like purple tights and a yellow top. I hated the clothes.
Any yellow, any blue, any red and a white are all I need.
The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.
In America, if a Democrat even thinks you're calling him liberal he grabs an orange vest and a rifle and heads into the woods to kill something.
People do give me a hard time about my hair because it's orange and it's big.
No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted. I fit a window frame into a brick wall. With a little brush, the size for fingernail polish, I glue it. The window is the size of a fingernail. The glue smells like hair spray. The smell tastes like oranges and gasoline.

Jeremy Kagan famous quotes

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