"I cannot help esteem The 'Bird within the Hand' Superior to the one The 'Bush' may yield me Or may not Too late to choose again"

-- Emily Dickinson

#Yield Quotes #Hands Quotes #Bird Quotes

“Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.”
“Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.”
“I was a full foot taller than any child my age.”
“First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.”
“Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.”

Source : "Freedom". Book by Jonathan Franzen, 2010.
“I'm that person in the bar who's like 'Can they turn the music down ? I would like to chat.' I don't like clothes. I'm terrible at all that stuff. I like sitting around and drinking a pint and gossiping or whatever.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“You would think with all the genius and the brilliance of these times, we might find a higher purpose and a better use of mind.”
“But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.”

Source : "Teddy Roosevelt's Immigration Speech Holds True Today" by Barbara Wamboldt, www.thewhig.com. July 07, 2010.

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