"Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls."

-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Country Quotes #Lying Quotes #Eye Quotes

“Determination is the strength needed to succeed.”
“They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.”

Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.293, U of Nebraska Press
“Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up very fast but not very far. That is why it is possible for fourteen-year-olds now to establish friendships with twenty-six-year-olds - because they know by the age of fourteen all they are ever going to know.”

Source : "Our Culture, What’s Left Of It". Frontpage Magazine interview, archive.frontpagemag.com. August 31, 2005.
“It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.”
“Every breath is a giveaway dance between you and the plants.”
“The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.”

Source : N.K. Rutter, Thucydides (1996). “History of the Peloponnesian War: A Companion”, Bristol Classical Press
“My secret is one the world needs to know - nearly a billion people a year die from unsafe drinking water.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The masculine/feminine look fascinates me. It is not only an issue of empowering women, but I think the shapes look great.”

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