"The image of Earth from space transformed our view of ourselves. It is maybe the most important image that exists - because we can see ourselves in context in a way that otherwise would be really hard to explain. It should inspire us to wonder about it, to want to know everything we can about it and do everything we can to take care of it."

-- Sylvia Earle

#Views Quotes #Space Quotes #Inspire Quotes

“Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.”
“You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud of it. If one had a right to be proud of anything, it would be of a continued decent tradition back of one.”

Source : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”
“I'd stumbled into a job at Salomon Brothers in 1985, and stumbled out, richer, in 1988, and even though I wrote a book about the experience, the whole thing still strikes me me as totally preposterous-which is one reason the money was so easy to walk away from.”
“I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.”

Source : Timothy Rogers, Rupert Brooke (1971). “Rupert Brooke: A Reappraisal and Selection from His Writings”
“You cannot always run at your best.”
“I think that experiencing through art is a wonderful way to expand the horizon and everything around it.”
“Every law is a contract between the king and the people and therefore to be kept.”
“I was like the only diverse kid in my high school, and I'm half-Puerto Rican. But yeah, I have a huge family and tons of cousins in Puerto Rico. We actually hung out with them last summer, and it was awesome. But I wish my grandfather had taught my dad Spanish when he was younger so he could've taught me when I was younger, and sometimes he does, too. It's a shame.”

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