"The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples."

-- Walter Lippmann

#Travel Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Usa Quotes

“I'm sure everyone's got their back story. I don't come from a place of where I was tortured and needed to let something out. I came from a very happy home. I was a little out of control at times. But my family... we all liked to be funny, we all liked to make each other laugh.”
“I remember once visiting an outdoor exhibition of sculpture in Arnhem, the Netherlands. One of the artists had placed this notice at the base of a majestic beech: "Statues are hewn by fools like me: only God could make this tree." The Taoists looked at the inside of the tree. They saw God present, not as the super-sculptor, but as the primal force from which the tree drew its being and its specific form. Becoming aware of this divine origin was for them "great knowledge," to be distinguished from the "small knowledge" of our petty, every-day existence.”
“Right now, with terrorism and poverty and Wall Street and Social Security having problems, nudity should not be the issue.”
“Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now”
“In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.”

Source : Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.229, Pluto Press
“Your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him.”
“It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.”
“Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.”

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