"Always, our eyes look backwards with the conviction that then, and not now, was the golden age."

-- Esther Meynell

#Eye Quotes #Past Quotes #Age Quotes

“I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.”
“When youâ€™re going through something hard and you start wondering where Allah is, just remember, the Teacher is always quiet during a test.”
“We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.”
“There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.”
“Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.”
“N'attendez pas le jugement dernier. Il a lieu tous les jours. Do not wait for the last judgment. It happens every day.”
“Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.”
“Stay green, stay in the woods, and stay safe.”

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