"I have been honored and privileged to have led The Rockefeller Foundation for the last seven years, and I am excited to be leading the Foundation as we enter our centennial year."

-- Judith Rodin

#Years Quotes #Foundation Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“So I realized when I was successful in a piece, it was because I didn't abandon a notion early on what it ought to be, and I let it take me along. So I've had songs that started out as being about the environment and ended up being love songs and love songs that ended up being about the environment. I've had things that I thought would be a poem and realized that it was just too big for that. I've got to do something larger and it became a play. I wrote one poem that started a whole play.”
“Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.”
“As a handful of sand thrown into the ocean, so are the sins of all flesh as compared with the mind of God.”
“He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.”
“The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.”
“You are not here in the world for yourself. You have been sent here for others. The world is waiting for you!”
“I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.”

Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “I, Mary MacLane: A Diary of Human Days”, p.20, The Floating Press
“I figured if I could put together being funny about stuff and actual events, maybe I could do something that wasn't being done much. Because the reporters that I met out there were funny, and they had hilarious stories that just didn't fit in the AP/UPI/New York Times foreign-correspondent style. They couldn't use the things they had. But I could.”

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