"My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots."

-- William Carlos Williams

#Roots Quotes #Youth Quotes #Conformity Quotes

“A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.”
“Comme l'imagination a creÂ eÂ Â le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.”
“Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.”
“Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America.”

Source : Steny Hoyer's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
“The photographerâ€™s vision convinces us to the degree that the photographer hides his hand.”
“It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.”
“On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.”
“In a thousand words I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by Shakespeare, the Preamble to the Constitution, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and almost all of the Boy Scout Oath. Now exactly what picture were you planning to trade for all that?”

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