"Im constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now."

-- Valerie June

#Past Quotes #Inspired Quotes #Lift Me Up Quotes

“People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.”

Source : L. Neil Smith (2001). “The Probability Broach”, p.121, Macmillan
“I donâ€™t like to quote myself but unfortunately everybody I know who should be quoting me is dead.”
“Lions and tigers, and bears, oh my! - Dorothy in Wizard of Oz”
“I tend to move between turtlenecks and shirts and ties. I don't really have a uniform in the sense that some people might.”
“The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.”

Source : Speech in the Convention Nationale (16 January 1793), Archives Parliamentaires de 1787 à 1860, vol. 57, p. 368, 1900.
“I'm having too much fun today to worry about tomorrow.”
“In almost every book I've written, there is a reference to a movie - legendary films, actors and actresses, and forgotten made-for-TV movies. The leaps poems make are not unlike the cuts in a film. The miniature and avant-garde prose poets have perhaps the most obvious ties to film, as a prose poem in its shape is not unlike a movie screen.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“War…next to love, has most captured the world’s imagination”

Source : Ralph Hale Mottram, John Easton, Eric Partridge (1930). “Three Men's War: The Personal Records of Active Service”

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