"TheÂ miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and ofÂ water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning andÂ the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass."

-- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#Moving Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Light Quotes

“Well, I was coming off of being on 'Law & Order,' and I was a little worried that it might be the end of my career - I've never been one of those actors with a lot of confidence that the next good job will come along.”
“We hear warmongering every day, every day we hear threats and attempts to scare us... We don't want war and never wanted, but at that time [i.e. during Nagorno-Karabakh war] we had to defend our Motherland. If the time comes again, this time our blow will be final and deadly.”

Source : President Serzh Sargsyan speaks after the military exercises, www.president.am. November 13, 2010.
“Let's first ask, what is life? And immediately we are stumped.”

Source : Eric Chaisson, Lola Judith Chaisson (2007). “Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos”, p.250, Columbia University Press
“That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.”

Source : Dagobert D. Runes (2015). “Treasury of Thought”, p.67, Open Road Media
“You are what you love, not who loves you.”
“What was I thinking? Fact is I wasn't thinking. I didn't want to think. I wanted to feel.”
“We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.”

Source : Language and Silence preface (1967)
“There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.”

Source : Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Master Georgie”, p.65, Hachette UK

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