"When I grew up in Pittsburgh in my parents' restaurant, I was almost like a country bumpkin."

-- Ming-Na Wen

#Country Quotes #Parent Quotes #Pittsburgh Quotes

“Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.”
“Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.”

Source : Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books
“Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.”
“We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our "white mythology." Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship.”
“There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even tacitly take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.”

Source : Sit-in Address on the Steps of Sproul Hall, delivered 2 December 1964, The University of California at Berkeley
“How great are the advantages of solitude! How sublime is the silence of nature's ever-active energies! There is something in the very name of wilderness, which charms the ear, and soothes the spirit of man. There is religion in it.”

Source : Estwick EVANS (1819). “A Pedestrian Tour of four thousand miles throught the Western States and Territories during the winter and spring of 1818. Interspersed with Reflections”, p.102
“I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.”
“Inferior guards play on the sidelines and great guards play in the middle. Isiah, Magic, Chris Paul, all get to the middle”

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