"As we educate a child -- removing out of its path those obstacles over which we ourselves, in early days, have stumbled, and strengthening its mind with the aid of our own matured experience -- we, as it were, construct a new and better replica of ourselves, and thus enable the race to move slowly, but surely, forward towards the ultimate goal of existence -- towards perfection."

-- Leonid Andreyev

#Children Quotes #Moving Quotes #Race Quotes

“The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns.”
“... like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face ...”
“You have heard that Christ said, 'My words are spirit and they are life'. So are my words spirit and life; they will burn their way into your brain and you will never get away from them!”
“Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done.”

Source : "Pennsylvania Republican: Voter ID Laws Are ‘Gonna Allow Governor Romney To Win’" by Annie-Rose Strasser, thinkprogress.org. June 25, 2012.
“I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn...”
“I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.”
“great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life.”

Source : Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1865). “Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family”, p.40
“At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about.”

Source : Marlene Dumas, Emma Bedford, Standard Bank Centre Art Gallery (2007). “Marlene Dumas: Intimate Relations”, p.42, Jacana Media

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