"Freedom is like holding a small bird. If you squeeze it too hard, you will kill it. But if you don't hold it firmly enough, it will fly away. Indeed, freedom can be both fragile and elusive, and so-as the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum so powerfully reminds us-it requires our eternal vigilance, our willingness, our ability, our conviction to stand up for that which we think is right."

-- Alex Kotlowitz

#Thinking Quotes #Museums Quotes #Bird Quotes

“Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over. There are tales that are older than most countries, tales that have long outlasted the cultures and the buildings in which they were first told.”
“I watched the mighty skyline fall”
“It's one of the greatest honors I could ever imagine - to be able to represent my country and to be able to wear "USA" on my back. It's an incredible honor. It's an accomplishment of the past four year but of a life of dreaming and working hard and doing everything I can in pursuit of this goal.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.”
“Then on! then on! where duty leads,My course be onward still.”

Source : George Crabbe, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1839). “The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”
“A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.”
“Read as widely as possible, and write every day, even if it's as little as three sentences.”
“I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute.”

Source : "The Jubilance Of Julian — The Feng Shui Of Schnabel" by Mia Berman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 25, 2017.

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