Quotes
Authors
A. Y. Jackson

"It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous influence; that I've been told I was on the verge of insanity, that my painting was nothing but meaningless daubs. Lawren Harris, the man most responsible for drawing the Group of Seven together, was accused of something perilously close to treason - his paintings, said his severest critics, were discouraging immigration."

-- A. Y. Jackson

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“The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.”

Source : Katharine Lee Bates (1907). “From Gretna Green to Land's End: A Literary Journey in England”
“The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first prompts the child to acts of generosity and even of self-sacrifice, to very touching demonstrations which are in no way prescribed. And here no doubt is the starting point for that morality of good which we shall see developing alongside of the morality of right or duty, and which in some persons completely replaces it.”
“In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.”

Source : Kristina Mcmorris (2012). “Bridge of Scarlet Leaves”, p.82, Kensington Publishing Corp.
“You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.”
“The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.”
“Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, or even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen.”
“The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.”
“Everything you do sends a message about who you are and what you value.”

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