"I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater."

-- Frank Rich

#Grew Up Quotes #Theater Quotes #Grew Quotes

“The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded sea coasts a cheap battleground on which they could whip their fellow men in a game based on the Calvinist doctrine that man is meant to suffer here below and never more than when he goes out to enjoy himself.”
“Travel opens different eyes to different things, shows things we've never seen before, shows the world from entirely different angles. That's the power of drawing and the power of travel. They both make the familiar unfamiliar and vice versa. They show what we all have in common and what we may have missed thanks to preconceptions that may have marred our vision.”
“You're the brightest thing I've ever seen, Kaylee. You're this beautiful ball of fire spitting sparks out at the world, burning fiercely, holding back the dark by sheer will. And I always knew that if I reached out -- if i tried to touch you -- I'd get burned. Because you're not mine. I'm not supposed to feel the fire. I'm not supposed to want it. But I do. I want you, Kaylee, like I've never wanted anything. Ever. I want the fire. I want the heat, and the light, and I want the burn.”
“Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.”
“My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this.”
“At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School.”

Source : Mary Cassatt, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1970). “Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926”
“If we, who have been redeemed, don't say what we have been redeemed from, how are those in the same bondage going to even know that there is hope.”
“I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.”

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