"After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is that when my eyes are closed in death that they will bury me back in that quiet little farm land where I was born."

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Annie Oakley

#Country Quotes #Eye Quotes #Land Quotes

“Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students.”
“We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.”
“A book I suggest to everybody is called, "Mysterious Stranger" by Mark Twain. It's about Satan and his visit here. A good book.”
“You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you dont necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.”
“Abysmal vermin that I am, I couldn't of course tell her that it was her incredible mother that I wanted to see againâ€¦ I knew only as I drove through the cold, night autumn air that somewhere Freud, Sophocles and Eugene Oâ€™Neill were laughing.”
“The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?”
“An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of unestimable difficulties and impediments which had to be encountered and surmounted, in an almost unexplored and uninhabited wilderness . . . evinced on your part a moral courage and an undaunted spirit and combination of science and management equally exciting our admiration and deserving our praise.”
“Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.”

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