"We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward to but rising sea levels and imminent mass extinctions, then raise a disapproving eyebrow when, in response, they dress in black, cut themselves with razors, starve themselves, gorge themselves, or kill one another."

-- Grant Morrison

#Children Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Sea Quotes

“only when we have a respect for time will we have learned something of the art of living.”

Source : Jacqueline Winspear (2003). “Maisie Dobbs”, p.154, Soho Press
“The other day I got out the shower and I bend down to reach for a towel, and I felt a sharp pain in my chest. Shot through my chest and up around my shoulder and down my spine. I thought 'Oh, Lord.' I thought I was dying. I bent over and looked, and I was standing on my own titty.”
“Where life is fully and consciously lived in our own neighborhood, we are cushioned a little from the impact of great far-off events which should be of only marginal concern to us.”

Source : Hubert Butler, Robert Fitzroy Foster (1990). “The sub-prefect should have held his tongue and other essays”, Viking Adult
“My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.”
“Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!”
“I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.”
“The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.”
“I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position.”

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