Being in the country is like being in a dream–one doesn't quite know who one is. There is an anonymity to it all–that strange human creature that is me, one among all.
In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
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Theodore Roosevelt
In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don’t differ from science.
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Virchand Gandhi
On my honor, I will do my best To do my duty To God and my country
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The maid told him that a girl and a child had come looking for him, but since she didn't know them, she hadn't cared to ask them in, and had told them to go on to Mers."Why didn't you let them in?" asked Germain angrily....
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George Sand
In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no...
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Thomas Paine
More Quotes By Meia Geddes
Suffice to say, the dream writer had a way of phrasing things. She could depict the curve of a cucumber, the shape of a sunbeam, the endearing, velvety tilt of a peach, in just such a way that she earned her living selling dreams. One...
The little queen lived in a world where the sky swirled like the sea and nothing was itself for very long. Everything looked to be in brushstrokes.
Cutting down a wall, the wall sawyer could feel the tension in a home ease and something windy rush in circles round her feet. It was addictive, each a sweet victory of art. The tumbling motion of a falling wall was like a volcanic eruption...
Art allows us to die over and over without actually dying. Only we must catch our breath.
I let quiet shape what I say, then realize there is nothing that can be fully said–the reason for gestures and eyes and art. Always something waiting, wanting, expectant, yet also curiously not.
