#Roots Quotes #Fruit Quotes #Innocence Quotes
“For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art.”
“Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.”
“You don't know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night, Scared at the thought of kissing razors”
“We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud wrestling and The Gong Show seem to have claimed the national campaign.”
“On the face of it, these look like bad times for Labour and for Ed Miliband's leadership. There seems to be no strategy, no narrative and little energy. Old faces from the Brown era still dominate the shadow cabinet and they seem stuck in defending Labour's record in all the wrong ways: we didn't spend too much money, we'll cut less fast and less far, but we can't tell you how.”
Source : New Statesman, January 5, 2012.
“If the people are victorious against the government, the nation will be weak; if the government is victorious against the people, the military will have strength. [thus they] will have the means by which they may fight, and thus ascend to supremacy.”
“Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring."”
“There are no limitations set by this electric universe upon any man's multiplication power. Each man sets his own limitations in accordance with his desires. He be a thin wire which gathers little energy and carries a weak current, or he may be a heavy one. That is true of all energy borrowed from the universe by all of us. It is there in unlimited quantities, but the gauge of the kind of wire each of us is set by ourselves.”
Anne Bradstreet Poet
Asher Brown Durand Painter
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poet
James F. Cooper Writer
James Russell Lowell Poet
John Greenleaf Whittier Poet
Thomas Cole Artist
Washington Irving Author
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Physician
