"In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings."

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Stephen Gardiner

#Cities Quotes #House Quotes #Athens Quotes

“I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie.”
“My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.”
“I feel like a lot of time my writing is like having about twenty boxes of Christmas decorations. But no tree. You're going, Where do I put this? Then they go, Okay, you can have a tree, but we'll blindfold you and you gotta cut it down with a spoon.”
“Television has - particularly at the HBO level in the United States - become a completely new genre. Something like Deadwood or The Wire is a whole new thing - there was no equivalent to that medium before. It's like a new way of telling stories.”
“From Roman times to the present, Italy has been a country to fall in love with - a tribute to all that is enduring, crazy, pagan, joyous, melancholy, at once banal and divine, in the human spirit.”
“The only thing I want to be able to do is come in and learn the offense, go out there and compete, show what I am capable of doing and try to get better as a football player.”
“A father must lead his children; but first he must learn to follow. He must laugh with them but remember the ache of childhood tears. He must hold the past with one hand and reach to the future with the other so there can be no generation gap in family love.”

Source : June Masters Bacher (1979). “Quiet Moments for Women: A Daily Devotional”, Harvest House Pub
“Being in the dark, there's a real weight to it. It's heavy.”

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