"It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time."

-- Jack Kerouac

#Wall Quotes #Oakland Quotes #Cities Quotes

“Nature sometimes contrives to disconcert by reflecting the image of our creation.”
“I had never really been around cards.”

Source : "The Cast of 'Smokin’ Aces' Gets Interviewed". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. January 22, 2007.
“There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.”
“The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.”

Source : Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.42
“I never really did years of movie-after-movie-after-movie but when you've got three toddlers in the house you're performing all day long, anyway, with puppet shows and stories - I act around the clock.”
“This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.”
“... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.”

Source : Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1850). “Godey's Magazine”
“Attract them by the way you live.”

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