Quote by Terry Pratchett

“Perhaps our forefathers were wise.”

— Harper Lee

“A comfortable and easy life leaves no room for growth. We must therefore embrace our hardships and the lessons they bring.”

— Peprah Boasiako

“Today's wealthy are poor though they don't know it. They can't bring their possessions to where we're all going.”

— Elie Wiesel

“They died comfortably in their little bed of understanding, to become useful citizens of the world. I pitied them, and in short order I…

— Henry Miller

“They did not speak, surprised to see how simple, almost poor, happiness could be, yes, materially poor and yet so abundant.”

— Andreï Makine

“as they drifted they had gathered trouble and a great deal of peculiar knowledge about human beings, what human beings would do or say…

— Paulette Jiles

“Even though he'd been born into a country unshackling itself from its colonial masters, even though he'd lived through nearly twenty years of freedom,…

— Judy Croome

“With people like that we needn't despair of civilisation,”

— John Dos Passos

“Man has been slipping backward for ages. The more advanced we became the more primitive we grew.”

— Jennifer Ott

“They had come down from the back mountains and higher places to hold forth their hands for something they though civilisation could offer, and…

— Jack Kerouac

“There is no substitute to living in one's native land, struggling and winning with one's own people.”

— Mario I. Miclat

“...seizing and incorporating...There is nothing about us which is more strongly primitive. [p. 203]”

— Elias Canetti