I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“My mother's mother came to this country in the usual way--she got on a boat with other immigrants and sailed from Sicily.… — Andrew Cotto Copy Share Image
“Every hero needs to venture into the Belly of the Beast. It’s essential to be devoured at least once by the monster.… — David Sinclair Copy Share Image
“For Americans as a nation hate war, and see the folly of it more clearly than many peoples of the Old World.… — H.E. Marshall Copy Share Image
I wonder what my father saw in his most secret sight of the right life. It's my guess he wanted to live… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
“It's a ridiculous story, of course, but history's full of ridiculous stories. 'You can't make this shit up,' one finds oneself saying,… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“She knew things that nobody had ever told her... She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pastor of… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“I don’t believe it!Are you telling me that these ugly creepers have left the Land of Maradonia? And… they are now in… — Gloria Tesch Copy Share Image
Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the… — Richard Holt Hutton Copy Share Image
No one in this country need go hungry, and alleviating the problem is primarily a matter of readjusting our priorities. In both… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
“How this peculiar grass, native to Central America and unknown to the Old World before 1492, came to colonize so much of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“The official line is that, after the war, women couldn't wait to leave the offices and assembly lines and government agencies. But… — Ellen Feldman Copy Share Image
To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media – which,… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Who has stopped worshiping us?" "Everyone in the old world," April said little harshly. "But of course they have, young woman. We… — K. A. Applegate Copy Share Image
We shuffle out of office buildings after being laid-off by draconian bosses; we sit on hold for ten minutes only to be… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short.… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“Because six billion of us are pursuing an evolutionarily unstable strategy, we’re fundamentally attacking the very ecological systems that keep us alive.… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
How old the world is! I walk between two eternities… What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
To its devotees the bowtie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian point of view. The… — Warren St. John Copy Share Image
“...I shall pledge myself to the Abolitionist cause, because I owe my life to a self-freed slave & because I must begin… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“You look beautiful,” my dad said as he walked over to me and offered his arm. His voice was quiet--even quieter than… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“If a man couldn't escape what he came from, we would most of us still be peasants in Old World hovels. But,… — John Graves Copy Share Image
The existing order is breaking down at a very rapid rate, and the main uncertainty is whether mankind can exert a positive… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
“Having fled to the New World, but with the scars of the Old World still etched in their skin, they had burned… — Thomas Olde Heuvelt Copy Share Image
“During the wars of the Empire while husbands and brothers were in Germany, anxious mothers gave birth to an ardent, pale, and… — David Downie Copy Share Image
If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“The city was a real city, shifty and sexual. I was lightly jostled by small herds of flushed young sailors looking for… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Perhaps no two events ever united so intimately and forceably to combat and expel prejudice, as the Revolution of America, and the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We are sometimes told that we are not a biblical church. We are a biblical church. This wonderful testament of the Old… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“my father liked his Indian talk about the Great Spirit," Ridgeway said. "All these years late, I prefer the American spirit, the… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“It makes no difference if you’re rich or poor Or if you’re smart or dumb. A woman’s place in this old world… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He had no answer. He had no right to all the grace and bounty of this world, earned and maintained by the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Tobias Buckell combines old world with new in his novel CRYSTAL RAIN. While the rich cultures, drawn in part from Caribbean history… — Karin Lowachee Copy Share Image
“A little murmur of admiration greeted this neat reply and on the crest of it the hostess rose to dismiss the meeting.… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“But something special happened to American poetry in the 19th century when Walt Whitman broke with more traditional English poetics and fashioned… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
