"Time in China has no immediacy as in America. Here I find the swift passage of our few earthly years accepted as naturally as the fall of flower and leaf. ... I hear and speak a language in which grammar has no tense. Both scholars and illiterates, in ordinary daily speech, tell an event of centuries ago as casually as an incident of the hour. Only as my knowledge has accumulated have I been able to know whether something related happened just then or in some past dynasty."

-- Nora Waln

#Time Quotes #Flower Quotes #Fall Quotes

“Ours is the first society in history in which parents expect to learn from their children, rather than the other way around. Such a topsy-turvy situation has come about at least in part because, unlike the rest of the world, we are an immigrant society, and for immigrants the only hope is in the kids.”

Source : Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”
“When [Adolf] Hitler was in Munich, their place [with Eva Braun] to meet was always his apartment. Before that, it was at Hoffmann's place. They had their routine there, Hitler had his security there, it was a place he was used to. He never got used to the apartment he got us on the WidenmayerstraÃŸe .”
“The best time to do something is when it can be done.”
“The difference is that they [Europeans] don't have that culture about hip-hop as a lifestyle, a way of life; for them it's more of the new trend, the new music that you have to like.”

Source : Source: www.hiphopcanada.com
“I'm a football player by trade. That's what I do, ... So I did everything I could to make myself a football player again.”
“If your words're true, they're armed.”
“I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.”

Source : "INTERVIEW: Sam Raimi Opens “The Gift,” Discovers Suspense Indiewood-Style". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. January 16, 2001.
“It looked like a ballpark. It smelled like a ballpark. It had a feeling and a heartbeat, a personality that was all baseball.”

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