"I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking - there is never really a backward-looking tendency. My banking work has taken me out to Palo Alto, what is commonly called Silicon Valley. And you sense out there is always a forward-looking outlook. And New York City."

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Source : Interview with Michael Barbaro, www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2010.

Harold Ford, Jr.

#Country Quotes #New York Quotes #Taken Quotes

“The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.”

Source : John Campbell Shairp (1871). “Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations”, p.30
“I'm not a big fan of the tchotchkes. It always reminds me of a grandma's stuffy home with a million Santa dolls.”

Source : The Inside Source Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2011.
“The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.”
“...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”
“The still sowe eats up all the draffe.”
“I'm very much a homebody so once I have my home set up how I want it, that's my zen, my comfy little nest where I drink my wine and watch my Netflix.”
“A lot of people don't know that I'm really a silly guy. I don't take anything seriously. It takes a lot of energy for me to take something seriously.”
“In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.”

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