"All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow."

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Source : Thomas Hoving, Grant Wood (2005). “American Gothic: The Biography of Grant Wood's American Masterpiece”, Chamberlain Brothers

Grant Wood

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“My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.”
“Our role in life is to bring the light of our own souls to the dim places around us.”
“Victory is freedom of mind and body.' I believe that is true. I would go further and say that victory is freedom of mind from body. Separation from the thing that imprisons us. Flight. Perhaps freedom from life itself. That is victory. Life is brutal. It is like this whip and these ropes. It hurts. It scars. But we must take it.”

Source : Douglas Clegg (2004). “The Machinery of Night”
“Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book.”

Source : 1854 TheAngel in the House, bk.1,The Betrothal, canto 8, prelude 2,'The Revelation'.
“Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.”
“Everybody can relate to feeling hopeless, at some point in their life, and everybody can relate to fighting for something that's worth fighting for, and everybody can relate to a person in their life that makes them go, "I don't know why you're here right now," but then, at the end of the day, realizing you'd do anything for them.”

Source : "Jordin Sparks Talks THE INEVITABLE DEFEAT OF MISTER & PETE, Filming LEFT BEHIND with Nicolas Cage, IN THE HEIGHTS on Broadway, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 12, 2013.
“There's an element of clowning and entertainment to Trump, that makes it surreal and hard to understand to what extent he is pretending to be a fascist or an authoritarian.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same--there's just less in it.”

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