Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization ? — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
“John Mitchel’s famous declaration that God sent the blight but the English created the Famine.” — Tim Pat Coogan Copy Share Image
Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of… — Giovanni Ruffini Copy Share Image
“properties in Detroit need to be torn down, according to a city task force report. Removing all of the city's blight could… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
There is a tale...It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected… — George Muller Copy Share Image
Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals… — William Blake Copy Share Image
How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If we are… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories of more… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
These monster cities we live in today are blights of modern society. They will certainly give way to planned cities interlinked to… — James P. Cannon Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Long time a child, and still a child, when years Had painted manhood on my cheek, was I; For yet I lived… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
In San Francisco, vulgarity, "bad taste," ostentation are regarded as a kind of alien blight, an invasion or encroachment from outside. In… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
So: if the chronic inflation undergone by Americans, and in almost every other country, is caused by the continuing creation of new… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
When I came to Detroit, if you threw a stone up in the air it would hit an autoworker on its way… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
It is what is left to him," said Will. "Do you not recall what he says to Lucie? 'If it had been… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Vespers In your extended absence, you permit me use of earth, anticipating some return on investment. I must report failure in my… — Louise Gluck Copy Share Image
Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness,… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
