"I am sick of four walls and a ceiling I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass."

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Source : Richard Hovey (1962). “Dartmouth Lyrics”, Dartmouth College

Richard Hovey

#Wall Quotes #Sky Quotes #Sick Quotes

“Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .”
“Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.”
“I want to share the ballet world with everyone.”
“The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.”

Source : Katharine Tynan (1922). “The Wandering Years”
“Only in Russia poetry is respected--it gets people killed.”

Source : "Hope Against Hope: A Memoir". Book by Nadezhda Mandelstam (Chapter 35), 1970.
“Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.”
“It's part of the reason I decided to speak out now. This was the tipping point for me. If it's O.K. for [David Petraeus ] to campaign for a job in the administration, then I'm going to campaign to get back out there, too.”

Source : Source: www.vanityfair.com
“Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.”

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