"[The Poles] will die for their country; but few will work for it."

-- Norman Davies

#Country Quotes #Dies Quotes

“When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ This praise for me when I was beautiful.”

Source : Pierre de Ronsard (1934). “Pierre de Ronsard: Sonnets Pour Hélène; with English Renderings by Humbert Wolfe”
“When you raise kids, you want them to grow up and be successful. If they can grow up and be like you, it's quite flattering.”

Source : Source: www.menshealth.com
“Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent, those principles both in fashion design and photography.”
“The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on the exoticism of multiculturalism or the diversity of cultures, but on the inscription and articulation of culture's hybridity. It is the inbetween space that carries the burden of the meaning of culture, and by exploring this Third Space, we may elude the politics of polarity and emerge as the others of our selves.”
“Make a beautiful mess and clean it up later.”
“Jesus is not a figure from the past: He continues now and always to light the way for us.”
“From today, painting is dead.”

Source : Stephen Bann, Paul Delaroche (1997). “Paul Delaroche: History Painted”, p.4, Reaktion Books
“To tell you the truth, I've never weighed myself. When somebody asks me my statistics or whatever I honestly don't know.”

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