"And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw."

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Source : The Shepherd's Calendar "July" l. 99 (1579)

Edmund Spenser

#Stars Quotes #Strive Quotes #Strife Quotes

“Who would be an artist that was perfectly happy? Maybe nowadays, but when I grew up in the '60s, you had nobody in the art club who was popular. No cheerleaders in the art club. I was told that I couldn't be a painter by my first painting teacher. I said I wanted to go to Cooper and be an art student, and he said, "You'll be a waitress." It was really the strangely indifferent parenting.”
“Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.”

Source : 'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 106
“As a chemist, I wanted to ask myself the question frustrated by biology: What is the minimal unit of matter that can undergo Darwinian evolution?”
“Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.”
“The spiritual combat in which we kill our passions to put on the new man is the most difficult struggle of all. We must never weary of this combat, but fight the holy fight fervently and perseveringly.”
“In the vernacular of my grandfather, 'I does not care.'”
“Just when you think it can't get no better, then it does.”
“I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.”

Source : Interview with Randy Shulman, www.metroweekly.com. June 7, 2006.

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