Recognizing that family self-sufficiency is a false myth, we also need to acknowledge that all today's families need help in raising children.… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I have traveled to Florida, I have traveled to Georgia, I have traveled to California, you and I both know that there… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story… — John Granger Copy Share Image
God is, to me, pretty much a myth created over time to deny the idea that we're all responsible for our own… — Seth Green Copy Share Image
I myself, at one time, wanted to be like the explorers of the Himalayas that I used to read about; people intoxicated… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong. — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
His life has been lived, so far, within narrow limits and he is quite naïve about most kinds of experience; he fears… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
Some tropes are universal. Boy meets girl. Betrayal and revenge. The search to discover a hidden truth.... A mother's love isn't cliché,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only because… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Every time I open Facebook, I see a post with something like, "We must forgive or be prisoners of our own bitterness… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
There's an ideology that's taken hold of universities, that has taken hold of elite establishments, that is committed to the myth of… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
Not in the name of a necessary protection of the white race did the European break into China, but for the benefit… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
What dazzles us in Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra are not the alluring mythologies about the evasive queen, but the astonishing if rare historical… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
First bubble baths. Now Disney parks. You're shattering every creep vampire myth I've ever heard. — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
