"in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized."

-- Robin Morgan

#Age Quotes #United States Quotes #Youth Quotes

“Poverty that is learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential peripheries of life. Theoretical poverty is of no use to us. Poverty is learned by touching the flesh of the poor Christ, in the humble, the poor, the sick, in children.”
“A free society is as much a threat to the intellectual's sense of worth as an automated economy is to the workingman's sense of worth. Any social order that can function with a minimum of leadership will be anathema to the intellectual.”
“The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.”

Source : Time for Greatness (1942) ch. 7
“I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.”
“In Hollywood, you're never any better than your last picture.”
“Play for one another, and play the right way. The right way is believing in what's on your chest and not what's on your back.”
“I think my daughter actually influences my style more than having boys. I tend to dress more masculine with pants or shorts or flat boots, and she makes me want to dress more stylish, more girly.”

Source : "Exclusive: Kourtney Kardashian On Keeping Up With Three Kids". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 7, 2015.
“I read poetry to save time.”

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