"A country-bred man can always learn to get on with city people, but a town-bred fellah never gets the real hang of the country. You can put city polish on a man, but by golly, it seems you can't ever rub it off him."

-- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

#Country Quotes #Real Quotes #Men Quotes

“When you are at Rome, do as you see.”
“The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Love and happiness remind me of sticky peanut butter. When you spread them around, you can't help but end up getting some on yourself!”
“Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.”
“the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled. Its highest attainment is the reduction of mankind to clockwork. In its atmosphere all those finer and more delicate liberties, which require treatment and spacious expansion, inevitably dry up and perish. The State requires a taxpaying machine in which there is no hitch, an exchequer in which there is never a deficit, and a public, monotonous, obedient, colorless, spiritless, moving humbly like a flock of sheep along a straight high road between two walls.”
“Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.”
“I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.”
“The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.”

Source : Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.112, Crossing Press

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