"English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common."

-- Bill Bryson

#Latin Quotes #Simple Quotes #Confusing Quotes

“I think judgment is from within. It's not a God judging. Someone who is nasty - they're the one who has to sleep at night.”
“Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.”
“At the end of the day, if you're old enough, you're good enough.”
“You are the Children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. You divinities on earth. Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; you are not matter, you are not bodies; matter is your servant,not you the servant of matter.”
“All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.”

Source : Ellen Gilchrist (2013). “Falling Through Space”, p.26, Open Road Media
“In Africa I discovered what the true purpose of a musician is. We are historians, and it is our purpose to tell the people the true story of our past, and to extend a better vision of the future.”

Source : Randy Weston, Willard Jenkins (2015). “African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston”, p.298, Duke University Press
“There were two dawns that morning. One the orderly sunrise of God, followed by man's fireball at the base of that rocket.”
“Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.”

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