"Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them."

-- Carl Schurz

#Life Quotes #Stars Quotes #Character Quotes

“Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully”
“Poems are my link with the times, with the new life of my people.”
“Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it.”
“Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.”
“Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties.”
“Preaching grace produces fruit. Preaching law produces nuts.”
“That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.”
“The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility.”

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