"No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us."

-- Luis Valdez

#Country Quotes #Liberty Quotes #United States Quotes

“Logic is one thing and commonsense another.”
“She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.”
“Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the next popular book.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“What in the world would we do without our libraries?”
“If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.”
“I do find it a bit disconcerting when your name becomes a brand.”
“Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.”
“When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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