"before the gate -- my walking stick's made a river of melting snow"

-- Kobayashi Issa

#Rivers Quotes #Snow Quotes #Sticks Quotes

“We can go for days, weeks, and even months without saying or thinking the word 'education.' And yet, day in and day out, we are educating others and being educated ourselves. In the narrower sense of education - those classrooms and buildings and campuses where teachers and taught are brought together for purposes stated and unstated, for outcomes intended and unintended - we have all been profoundly affected by the pattern of days essentially not of our own making.”
“Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.”
“For many Native Americans across the land, the name of the Washington football team is a deeply personal reminder of a legacy of racism and generations of pain.”
“Whenever a society wants to demonize a particular group, it prohibits them from marrying.”
“Do not judge from mere appearances...”
“Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.”
“The artist thing is just natural. If that comes out, the music, the songs, I need some actual time which I dedicate to it. But I don't have to sit down eight hours a day in order to get out what I need to create. That is just always bubbeling inside and than evetually it just comes out.”

Source : Source: themessage.at
“I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood.”

Source : "David James Elliott Plunges into Sci Fi's Knights of Bloodsteel". Interview with Erin Fox, www.tvguide.com. April 17, 2009.

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