"I have always thought, "If the city cannot come to the country, then the country must come to the city.""

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Source : "Siftings".

Jens Jensen

#Country Quotes #Cities Quotes #Ifs Quotes

“Memory feeds imagination.”
“I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents and more distant ancestors. It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family which is passed on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to answer questions which fate had posed to my forefathers, and which had not yet been answered, or as if I had to complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished.”
“Our very name for God's Creation is NATURE, for that is what Nature is. I shall define Nature for you in simple words. Nature is an electric wave thought image of God's nature, electrically projected from His formless and unconditioned ONE LIGHT into countless many forms of conditioned light which we call matter.”
“It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities.”

Source : Ramachandra Guha (2011). “India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy”, Pan Macmillan
“If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.”
“The most I can hope for is to die in a pose that confuses future archaeologists.”

Source : Yahtzee Croshaw (2012). “Jam”, p.169, Dark Horse Comics
“Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind....He arrived in our lives as an alien but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit”
“They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.”

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