"It seems that the most fearful people in our country are those who don't travel and are metaphorically barricaded in America. If we all stayed home and built more walls and fewer bridges between us and the rest of the world, eventually we would have something to actually be fearful of."

-- Rick Steves

#Country Quotes #Travel Quotes #Wall Quotes

“The education of young people in science is at least as important, maybe more so, than the research itself.”
“Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.”
“You beat 50 percent of the people in America by working hard. You beat 40 percent by being a person of honesty and integrity and standing for something. The last 10 percent is a dogfight in the free enterprise system.”
“Come live, and be merry, and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!”
“I ended up working on "Chicago Hope" and other things, but always with the idea that, eventually, I would want to take what I'd learned in character drama and try to apply that to the genre that I love, which is science fiction and "The Twilight Zone" type mysteries.”
“The French have no such expression as 'killing time.' In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is 'passing time,' which means savoring all moments of it each to his individual enjoyment. While we battle with time, they relax with tempo.”

Source : Cornelia Otis Skinner (1985). “Bottoms up!”
“I searched so hard for a part that was so complex”
“As you look back in history, we [the United States] have done wonderful things, the Marshal Plan is the most obvious. After World War II, we spent billions of dollars to rebuild Europe or at least part of Europe after the devastation of World War II. We did it out of charity, but we also did it to keep the Russians from getting deeply into Europe.”

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