"When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men."

-- Bruce Beresford

#Growing Up Quotes #Men Quotes #White Man Quotes

“A nobleness to try for, A name to live and die for.”

Source : George Parsons Lathrop (1892). “Dreams and Days: Poems”
“Unless we make revolutionary reforms, some day - in some unknown serra - some unknown Fidel Castro will rise up in Brazil.”

Source : "One Man's Cup of Coffee". Time Magazine profile, content.time.com. June 30, 1961.
“I have never been able to understand the complaint that a story is "depressing" because of its subject matter. What depresses me are stories that don't seem to know these things go on, or hide them in resolute chipperness; "witty stories," in which every problem is the occasion for a joke; "upbeat" stories that flog you with transcendence. Please. We're grown ups now.”
“There is a design and a purpose for each of our lives. Living unaware of that is sad, but dying unaware of it is a tragedy.”
“I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar.”
“As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.”

Source : "Caliban: A Philosophical Drama Continuing 'The Tempest' of William Shakespeare". Book by Ernest Renan (Act 2, Scene 1), 1878.
“For those who use their intelligence and their study as a weapon, the Rosary is most effective. Because that apparently monotonous way of beseeching Our Lady as children do their Mother, can destroy every seed of vainglory and pride.”
“When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.”

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