"There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears."

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Source : Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

Chief Seattle

#Spring Quotes #Men Quotes #Cities Quotes

“The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.”
“A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.”
“The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.”
“I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them.”
“Amir Khan will come back and he will win back the world title because I know the guy personally, and I know what he's made off. There's no quit in this guy.”
“People ask me where I go to get away and I say, 'home'”
“In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.”
“The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best.”

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