"There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were."

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Nina Simone

#Hero Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Firefighter Quotes

“Every man carries with him the world in which he must live.”

Source : Francis Marion Crawford (1902). “Cecilia: A Story of Modern Rome”, Copp, Clark Company
“Synchronistic events offer us perceptions that may be useful in our psychological and spiritual growth and may reveal to us, through intuitive knowledge, that our lives have meaning.”
“It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does not know it, a country in electoral season experiences flares of lunacy like the great storms that sometimes march across the golden surface of the sun.”

Source : Mark Helprin (2005). “Freddy and Fredericka”, p.313, Penguin
“In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.”
“I'm not a politician and I'm not trying to change anybody's mind. I'm just exploring what I see.”
“Men of real talents in Arms have commonly approved themselves patrons of the liberal arts and friends to the poets, of their own as well as former times. In some instances by acting reciprocally, heroes have made poets, and poets heroes.”
“I can walk into someone's house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can lift a passport at an airport, and in twenty minutes it will seem like it's mine. I can be a blackbird staring in the window. I can be a cat creeping along a ledge. I can go anywhere I want and do the worst things I can imagine, with nothing to ever connect me to those crimes. Today I look like me, but tomorrow I could look like you. I could be you.”
“Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?”

Source : Song: Where Were You, Album: Drive, 2002

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