"When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face"

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Source : John Drinkwater (1919). “Poems, 1908-1919”

John Drinkwater

#Dream Quotes #Bird Quotes #Faces Quotes

“The human being who acts is the human being who lives.”

Source : "Theatre: A Way of Seeing". Book by Milly S. Barranger, p. 203, 2014.
“everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all.”
“Ladies, if you want a happy marriage, then do whatever your husband tells you without questioning his authority.”
“"I'm a victim of sexual discrimination." "No, you're the victim of a cruel sexual experiment performed by your mother and father.”
“Taiwan and China are related ethnically and close neighbors geographically. There's no reason to resent or to fight against each other.”
“The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat of the same material, [is] native to the Boston North Shore, the Chicago North Shore, the North Shore of Long Island, to Westchester County, the Philadelphia Main Line and the Peninsula area of San Francisco.”
“What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination that looks forward to the making of a future, not backward to the insignia of the past. Their enterprise is underwritten by a Constitution that allows for the widest horizons of sight and the broadest range of expression, supports the liberties of the people as opposed to the ambitions of the state, and stands as premise for a narrative rather than plan for an invasion or a monument. The narrative was always plural; not one story, many stories.”
“These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.”

Source : "Ricky Martin says he's 'a fortunate homosexual man'" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. March 29, 2010.

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