"Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave -"

-- William C. Bryant

#Memorial Day Quotes #Blood Quotes #Land Quotes

“In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.”
“Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the intervals, makes the intervals active.”
“When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.”
“We crash into each other just so we can feel something”
“As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God”
“Pigs may not be as cuddly as kittens or puppies, but they suffer just as much.”
“It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.”

Source : William H. Whyte (2012). “City: Rediscovering the Center”, p.109, University of Pennsylvania Press
“To convey one’s mood in seventeen syllables is very diffic”

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