"We learned some bad things, and the Vietnam War led to some bad conclusions. We're not the greatest generation, that's for sure."

-- Whit Stillman

#War Quotes #Generations Quotes #Vietnam Quotes

“The common damn'd shun their society.”

Source : Robert Blair, Thomas Gray (1837). “The Grave and Other Select Poems on the Common Lot of Man”, p.21
“I am at a crossroads; I have always been against armed opposition... I have chosen civil disobedience. But I will apologize to my people if there are funerals coming out of prisons. I will criticize myself and I won't be the mayor of Diyarbakir.”

Source : "After the Hunger Strike" by Jenna Krajeski, www.newyorker.com. November 27, 2012.
“It was like the Colosseum in Rome and we were the Christians.”
“I am not ashamed to be a Christian, and I am glad to know that the President of the United States is a Christian, for without the help of the Almighty I do not think he could rightly judge in ruling so many people. I have advised all of my people who are not Christians, to study that religion, because it seems to me the best religion in enabling one to live right.”

Source : Geronimo (2010). “My Life: The Autobiography of Geronimo”, p.153, Fireship Press
“At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.”
“The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence.”

Source : Anna Swinbourne, James Ensor, Susan Marie Canning, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (2009). “James Ensor”, p.22, The Museum of Modern Art
“She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through a dryer, because she liked to look out the window and see the clothes blowing in the wind. She had been especially delighted, one day, when one sleeve of the top of her husband's pajamas, prodded by the stiff breeze off the bay, reached over and grabbed her nightgown around the waist.”
“I have my goals, I have some things I want to achieve next basketball season individually. But the number one thing is always winning games. If you win games then everything else will take care of itself. You know nobody wants to see you guys score 30 and then lose every game.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com

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