"The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time."

-- Kate DiCamillo

#Once Upon A Time Quotes #Phrases Quotes #Shapes Quotes

“There are three things that are not to be credited: a woman when she weeps, a merchant when he swears, nor a drunkard when he prays.”
“When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.”
“The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would be difficult for imagination to exceed. Scorn, derision, insult, menace - the handcuff, the last - the tearing away of children from parents, of husbands from wives - the weary trudging in droves along the common highways, the labor of body, the despair of mind, the sickness of heart - these are the realities which belong to the system, and form the rule, rather that the exception, in the slave's experience.”

Source : Fanny Kemble (1961). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.6, University of Georgia Press
“But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the demonstration from the Scriptures themselves.”
“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”

Source : Anthony Burgess (1982). “Here comes everybody: an introduction to James Joyce for the ordinary reader”, Hamlyn
“If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface.”
“Republicans should save the clip of Jonathan Gruber and run it over and over again in the run-up to the 2016 election. This attitude that government is better at making decisions than you are because you are too stupid to know what is good for you is a hallmark of patronizing, arrogant and condescending liberalism.”
“As the first human to land on any world outside the Earth, and probably the first living creature of any sort to come from the Earth and reach the Moon, his legacy will be safe as long as intelligent life survives in this corner of the cosmos.”

Source : "NSS Mourns Neil Armstrong – Calls for Renewed Emphasis on Human Space Exploration". www.nss.org. August 26, 2012.

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