"America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children."

-- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#Children Quotes #America Quotes

“Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!”
“There's never been a particular band that I've followed religiously. But I do tend to listen to sadder music.”
“Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.”
“I've been writing a lot of songs in twos, songs that are like twins in my mind.”
“Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.”

Source : James Tate (1999). “The route as briefed”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.”
“Instead of preaching the good news that sinners can be made righteous in Christ and escape the wrath to come, the gospel has degenerated into the pretext that we can be happy in Christ and escape the hassles of life.”

Source : Ray Comfort (2004). “Revival's Golden Key”, Bridge-Logos
“It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.”

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