"When I went to Detroit, I was very naÃ¯ve, actually, and I think Patti [Smith] picked up on that quite quickly."

-- Steven Sebring

#Thinking Quotes #Detroit Quotes

“For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977”
“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.”
“Each of us will taste the bitter ashes of life, from sin and neglect to sorrow and disappointment. But the atonement of Christ can lift us up in beauty from our ashes on the wings of a sure promise of immortality and eternal life. He will thus lift us up, not only at the end of life, but in each day of our lives.”
“There is nothing going on. I took nothing you wanted. You can't have it back.”
“I don't have any understanding of a human being who doesn't respect the beauty of life and that goes for all creatures that have thoughts, feelings and needs.”
“I don't get myself caught up in the rhetoric of any personal comments that are made.”
“A house without books is like a room without windows.”

Source : "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.
“Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living.”

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