"From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber."

-- Harry Seidler

#America Quotes #Migration Quotes #Abundance Quotes

“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Perhaps the adjective 'elderly' requires definition. In physics, mathematics, and astronautics it means over thirty; in the other disciplines, senile decay is sometimes postponed to the forties. There are, of course, glorious exceptions; but as every researcher just out of college knows, scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of the laboratory!”
“Be attentive to the voice of grace.”
“Every time one person chooses a new way to respond to the challenges of life, each time an individual chooses a new option, that person then becomes a living bridge for all the others who choose to follow in that person's path.”
“Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops.”
“Fear and faith have something in common. They both ask us to believe in something we cannot see.”
“Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”
“If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.”
“This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will...”

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