"A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age."

-- George Edward Woodberry

#Country Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Age Quotes

“Monastic incarceration is castration.”
“I have a ships bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.”
“If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings, the whole of these Christians, - aye, and throw in the Saracens to boot, - would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Kublai, who is Lord of all the Tartars in the world.”

Source : Marco Polo, William Marsden (1926). “The travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian”, Doubleday
“I always start my breakfast out with oatmeal, because it's full of vitamin D, it's a great carb, and you can get, like, some fun flavors in there.”
“You got to fight for quality art and equality and all the things that we're fighting for, the things we believe in. Choice and preference and all those things that we support. We don't want to give up that fight. You got to keep doing it.”

Source : "Interview With Christopher Cross Upon Release Of New Album 'Doctor Faith'". CBS-FM Interview, wcbsfm.cbslocal.com. June 28, 2011.
“I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but, its not who you are.”
“This is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws.”
“gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.”

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