When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
There is a descent from God through the world to animals, and an ascent from animals through the world to God. He… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
About five years ago I saw a mockingbird make a straight vertical descent from the roof gutter of a four-story building. It… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
All sorts of other lies are being spread today, I do not know what else they will invent. I've heard that I'm… — Franjo Tudjman Copy Share Image
Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In this tradition a story is 'holy,' and it is used as medicine," she told Radiance magazine. "The story is not told… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
The United Nations and the Organization of American States have named 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent. This… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent. — Florian Znaniecki Copy Share Image
As a mother, anything to do with my children, whether it's supporting their school or programs that support their education and enrichment.… — Trista Sutter Copy Share Image
When I began work on my first book, The River of Doubt, which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelts 1914 descent of… — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
If the human species, or indeed any part of the biosphere, is to continue to survive, it must eventually leave the Earth… — Frank J. Tipler Copy Share Image
If the ascent of women has been much exaggerated, so has the descent of men. — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane begins its… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs… — Charlotte Smith Copy Share Image
I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird. — Gemma Files Copy Share Image
No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
So far has Athens left the rest of mankind behind in thought and expression that her pupils have become the teachers of… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
Fifty-thousand were gathered (March,27th,1933) in and around Madison Square Garden, supportive rallies were at that moment waiting in Chicago, Washington, San Francisco,… — Edwin Black Copy Share Image
The total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
