"Suppose we took a thousand negatives... combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city - that would be my favorite picture."

-- Berenice Abbott

#Past Quotes #Cities Quotes #Curiosity Quotes

“Donald Trump was appealing to a lot of people with his populist message.”
“Life does not play with marked cards.Winning or losing is part of it.”
“Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.”
“The most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan.”

Source : TV.com Interview, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.
“For every Seaman of Industry and Ingenuity, is not only a Navigator, but a Merchant, and also a Soldier.”

Source : "Several Essays in Political Arithmetick".
“The word fate... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.”
“Some women don't care how their quilts look. They piece the squares together any sort of way, but she couldn't stand careless sewing. She wanted her quilts, and Joy's, made right. Quilts stay a long time after people are gone from this world, and witness about them for good or bad. She wanted people to see, when she was gone, that she'd never been a shiftless or don't-care woman.”

Source : Julia Mood Peterkin (1927). “Black April: A Novel”, p.128, University of Georgia Press
“Dreams, in their essence, include risk. This risk could be physical danger (often true in climbing big mountains like Everest), or it could be financial (leaving a comfortable job and pouring your life savings into a business venture), or it could be emotional (like the feelings of loss and questioning that comes with losing friends and coworkers to climbing accidents).”

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