"I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?"

-- Janet Fitch

#Mother Quotes #Chains Quotes #Ashamed Quotes

“"Solid wastes" are the discarded leftovers of our advanced consumer society. This growing mountain of garbage and trash represents not only an attitude of indifference toward valuable natural resources, but also a serious economic and public health problem.”
“If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.”
“Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.”
“The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards.”
“Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.”
“Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as though this may be his undoing. The problem is that man's conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world.. or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.”

Source : Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.80, Bantam
“The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.”

Source : "Duane "Dog" Chapman: What I've Learned" by Kendall Hamilton, www.esquire.com. January 7, 2009.
“I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call.”

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