"Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may be public or private, serious or funny, but that carry with them a reminder of community."

-- Robert Adams

#Photography Quotes #Community Quotes #May Quotes

“Most New Yorkers want to look amazing, and they want you to understand that they look amazing, but they also want you to stop staring at them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.”
“My one and only piece of relevant evidence [for an Aristotelian God] is the apparent impossibility of providing a naturalistic theory of the origin from DNA of the first reproducing species ... [In fact] the only reason which I have for beginning to think of believing in a First Cause god is the impossibility of providing a naturalistic account of the origin of the first reproducing organisms.”
“Every child I know who overcame long odds and grew into a responsible adult can point to an adult who stepped into his or her life as a FRIEND, a MENTOR, and a GUIDE.”
“People who hold important positions in society are commonly labelled "somebodies," and their inverse "nobodies"-both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors, for we are all, by necessity, individuals with distinct identities and comparable claims on existence. Such words are nevertheless an apt vehicle for conveying the disparate treatment accorded to different groups. Those without status are all but invisible: they are treated brusquely by others, their complexities trampled upon and their singularities ignored.”
“We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!”

Source : "The Legacy of Islamic AntiSemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History" by Andrew Boston, Prometheus Books, (p. 682), 2008.
“To me, peanut butter is the breakfast of champions!”
“We use eating as a medium for social relationships: satisfaction of the most individual of needs becomes a means of creating community.”

Source : Margaret Visser (2015). “The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners”, p.8, Open Road Media

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