"Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying."

-- David Antin

#Meaningful Quotes #Children Quotes #Singing Quotes

“A man blessed with a good mamma and a good wife has no right to complain about anything else.”
“Lincoln's reference to government of the people, by the people, for the people is a generally satisfactory definition of democracy. I say generally because when it comes to fair and workable details, democracy fails to completely meet the criteria enunciated by Lincoln by a rather wide margin.”
“I'm in awe of comics that do things that I can't do, or haven't tried doing yet.”
“LIFE IS JUST A SERIES OF MOMENTS.IF YOU MISS THE MOMENTS,YOU MISS YOUR LIFE”
“In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.”

Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2012). “Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays”, p.37, tredition
“He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.”
“The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.”

Source : "Conversations dans le Loir-et-Cher". Book by Paul Claudel, p. 22; translation from The Independent, February 6, 2001, 1984.
“I'm a big believer in the collective unconscious. The idea that there is a deep connection between all of us that goes back to our ancestors and forward to the people who will come after us. It's essentially the job of the artist to anchor that nebulous space, and I think that's what a writer does: goes to that strange place and brings back these little trinkets. The unspoken experience percolated throughout the generations allows you to have knowledge of things you wouldn't know first hand.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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