"My father... never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before learning to read, my greatest pleasure was to listen to passages from Buffon's natural history. I constantly requested him to read me the history of animals and birds."

-- Andre-Marie Ampere

#Father Quotes #Animal Quotes #Bird Quotes

“You see much more of your children once they leave home.”
“Punk is no longer a subculture or a counterculture in any way. It's totally just a small reflecting mirror for the same things that go on in larger culture.”

Source : "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.
“In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.”
“How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the Earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clear and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people.The perfumed flowers are our sisters, the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat of the pony, and the man, all belong to the same family.”
“When people are watching you, it makes you think twice about what you do, and the things you say, and the people you hang around with.”
“Fly me up to where you are beyond the distant star. I wish upon tonight to see you smile, if only for a while to know you're there. A breath away's not far to where you are.”

Source : Song: To Where You Are, Album: Josh Groban
“He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.”
“On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree”

Source : "Bill Moyers Journal" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. June 26, 2009.

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