"A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead; They followed still his crooked way And lost a hundred years a day; For thus such reverence is lent To well established precedent."

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Source : Sam Walter Foss (1895). “Whiffs from Wild Meadows”

Sam Walter Foss

#Men Quotes #Boston Quotes #Years Quotes

“You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.”
“Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading.”

Source : Donalyn Miller (2013). “Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits”, p.24, John Wiley & Sons
“There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both.”
“Though much is taken, much abides; and though we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we areâ€” Unyielding.”

Source : "Ulysses" l. 65 (1842)
“If I stop today at a protest and I read a speech, it is a speech that remains in that moment, and whoever captures it does, and whoever doesn't, doesn't, and just keeps walking. It is very sterile, and it can seem even inaccessible and boring for a community.”
“We learned a lot about the Moon, but what we really learned was about the Earth. The fact that just from the distance of the Moon you can put your thumb up and you can hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything that you've ever known, your loved ones, your business, the problems of the Earth itself-all behind your thumb. And how insignificant we really all are, but then how fortunate we are to have this body and to be able to enjoy loving here amongst the beauty of the Earth itself.”

Source : "In the Shadow of the Moon". Documentary, History, www.imdb.com. 2007.
“I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself.”
“Isabel sends her brother a look that could boil him in oil if she had that particular paranormal talent. A thought hits me: maybe she has. It will be fun to find out.”

Source : Marianne Curley (2013). “The Named: New Rejacketed”, p.49, Bloomsbury Publishing

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