We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracingthe steps of the race; we go westward… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The old world is dying, but a new world is being born. It generates inspiration from the chaos that beats upon us… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
“Keep struggling, o brave soldier - keep struggling till politicians become an extinct species and politics an extinct profession. The mission is,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
There is room in this great and growing city for a journal that is not only cheap but bright, not only bright… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
“I cannot say whether there is fur on my wife's legs for I have never seen them nor do I intend to… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“So gorgeous was the spectacle on the May morning of 1910 when nine kings rode in the funeral of Edward VII of… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
I came from the old world of gastronomy. Many years ago I walked into the kitchens of the Hotel St George and… — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
“We live in a strange time,’ Electra said. ‘A time when the gods are fading. Some of us still see them but… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
“As I train myself to cast off words, as I learn to erase word-thoughts, I begin to feel a new world rising… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
“His ex-wife dumped him and the kids." Sophia's gaze lifted from the wine she held, met his. "Dumped?" "Yeah, decided there was… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
But there is another way. And that is to organize mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love. It seems to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I worry that we have forgotten that the de-ideologized, de-politicized, uncontentious public space of the last 50 years as Europeans have experienced… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time. But when the pollen again gilded the sun… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
For who can wonder that man should feel a vague belief in tales of disembodied spirits wandering through those places which they… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It really seems to me sometimes that the only hope is space. That is to say, perhaps the most energeticin a bad… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Three elements entered into the life which offered itself to these children: behind them a past forever destroyed, still quivering on its… — Alfred De Musset Copy Share Image
“I am a man of the old world, a seed that was transplanted by the wind, a seed which failed to blossom… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“He studied me with his predator's gaze, assessing me from head to toe. I studied him back. He didn't just occupy space;… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“I prefer the American spirit, the one that called us from the Old World to the New, to conquer and build and… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“So you're the winner of this game show," Seth says, "and you get a choice between a five-piece living room set from… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Advice" I must do as you do? Your way I own Is a very good way, and still, There are sometimes two… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The thing about frontiers, it allows the individuals who are best, whether they're men or women or minorities or whatever, to step… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“The Middle Ages are generally reckoned to have ended at least a century before America’s founding. By the 1620s in the Old… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“The paradigms were shifting. He could feel it. The old world, a world of infinite vastness and illimitable resources and future, was… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“So by the beginning of the third century B.C. we find already arisen in the Western civilization of the old world three… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“In voting for the Republic, I voted for that. I voted for fraternity, concord, the dawn. I have aided in the overthrow… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had. It certainly changed me for… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“To every Old World belief, habit, or tradition, there was and still is a technological alternative. To prayer, the alternative is penicillin;… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
“Yes, I think a lot happened here. This fountain in the wall. Pico and Lorenzo and Poliziano and the young Michelangelo. They… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Whenever I write for television, I plan the story on whiteboard wallpaper in my office, using a system created by the American… — Graham Linehan Copy Share Image
The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous enough, and… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
The kingdom of God is like a mustard seed, beginning as the smallest of seeds but growing until the birds of the… — R. C. Sproul, Jr Copy Share Image
“Less than twenty years after the end of the Great War, the ‘war to end wars’ as it had come to be… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
We don't live in the old world. But I don't want everyone to know what I've done. We all know every kind… — Andrew Keen Copy Share Image
