"Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was."

-- Harper Lee

#Aunt Quotes #Land Quotes #People Quotes

“A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards space.”
“The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.”
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”
“One moves swiftly and imperceptibly from a world in which affirmative action can`t be ended because its beneficiaries are too weak to a world in which it can`t be ended because its beneficiaries are too strong.”

Source : Christopher Caldwell (2009). “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West”, p.313, Penguin UK
“When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of Canaan to spring from the wasteland, I am convinced that in spite of everything, humanity is admirable. But when I compute the unfailing greatness of spirit and the tenacity of benevolence that it must have taken to achieve this result, I am taken with an immense respect for that old and unlearned peasant who was able to complete a work worthy of God.”
“Hi, I'm a hero, but I can't tell you why. It's classified.”
“The first role I ever did... I played a Nazi skinhead.”
“No one should be required to see America for the first time.”

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