"We are, all of us, molded and remolded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass, we remain none the less their work--a work that very likely they do not recognize, and which is never exactly what they intended."

--

Francois Mauriac

“Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.”

Source : Up Front cartoon caption (1945)
“Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.”
“Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.”
“I had no contact with my contemporaries in the photographic field, nor even knowledge of their work. So I was influenced by no-one and there were no short cuts for me. I was self-taught the hard way, by trial and error.”
“Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions.”

Source : HELEN WILLS “TENNIS”
“Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows.”
“I learned early on that it's heartbreaking to - there's the editor that comes in, and then they have to craft the movie together, and sometimes you give a whole performance that's just been cut up, and maybe it's better for it, absolutely, but you still have to deal with the loss of that.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Terroir - the taste of place - was important from the early South of the first Indian, African, and Europeans to the nineteenth-century South. During that time, Southerners ate far more locally and seasonally, from the ground they knew and grew up on. That idea connects back to today. You are a place. And as a Southerner, the food you place in your body speaks of your personal history, and of the broader Southern history.”

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