"People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster."

-- Alistair Cooke

#Country Quotes #Oysters Quotes #America Quotes

“I would not give up a lot of what I know about my heritage. I would not give up knowing where I came from, the good parts and the bad parts.”
“I love Benny Hill. He one of my favourites of aaall time. Like, the way Benny did it, he was just amazing. Just seeing how he put songs together and comedy and the timing and the sketches. He was way ahead of his time.”
“Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough.”
“True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters the destitute, it serves those that harm it, it binds up that which is wounded, it has become all things to all creatures.”
“I'm just like this. I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle to me. The whole thing.”
“Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!”
“We don't take photographs with our cameras, we take them with our hearts and our minds. They are a reflection of ourselves...wha t we are and what we think.”
“Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.”

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