"What's down below is in the past Like last night's crickets, far below."

-- Wallace Stevens

#Past Quotes #Night Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans, and in the works of the first great educator of the modern era, Comenius, children were recognized as being both different from adults and different from one another with respect to their stages of development. To be sure, the scientific study of children and the increased length of life in modern times have enhanced our understanding of age differences, but they have always been acknowledged.”
“I graduated from Wesleyan University with a b.a. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did the requirements for the major, I realized I was more interested in how people live in buildings than in making buildings. I was more interested in the interactions that happened inside the structures. So I got an art degree as a default position.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.”
“What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?”

Source : Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (1845). “Zoe: The History of Two Lives”, p.90
“Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.”
“The problem with leftism as a vice is that everyone else is stuck with the hangover.”
“The young bloods of the South; sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will. War suits them.. They are splendid riders, first rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace.”
“Does history record any case in which the majority was right?”

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