"Jenny, all my life I have wanted to do miracles. I have wanted to be holy. I suppose it was ambition or pride or some other unworthy thing. It was not enough for me to conquer the world--I wanted to conquer heaven too."

-- T. H. White

#Ambition Quotes #Pride Quotes #Miracle Quotes

“I got a heart tattooed on my foot. It's my first tattoo.”
“That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.”

Source : "Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai: A Global Icon Of Conservation" by Korva Coleman, www.npr.org. September 26, 2011.
“People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.”
“The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.”

Source : Gail Sheehy (2011). “New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time”, p.428, Ballantine Books
“Not only has photography so thoroughly saturated our visual environment as to make the invention of visual images seem archaic, but it is also clear that photography is too multiple, too useful to other discourses, ever to be wholly contained within traditional definitions of art.”

Source : Douglas Crimp, Louise Lawler (1995). “On the Museum's Ruins”, p.134, MIT Press
“We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first time they learned something they loved.”
“I want to be as famous as midnight. As powerful as a gun. As loved as a pizza.”
“The politicians are no prizes, but the people are even worse, they're so ill-informed. I never understand the pushback when I say people are stupid.”

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