Americus Quotes & Sayings

I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but it is not America. Neither Americus Vespucius, nor Columbus, nor the rest were the discoverers of it. There is a truer account of it in Mythology than in any history of America so called that I have seen. — Henry David Thoreau

I'm trying to expand the notion of curating. Exhibitions need not only take place in galleries, need not only involve displaying objects. Art can appear where we expect it least. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

We cannot be fearful all the time; we have to rise above our fear, whatever is to happen to us, however our conditions may challenge us. To be fearless is a decision that one must make. And this fearlessness becomes the fundamental ground of nonviolence. — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

Somewhere in my brain
each laugh, tear and lullaby
becomes memory. — Jacqueline Woodson

Before you wonder 'Am I doing things right?' ask yourself, 'Am I doing the right things? — Justin Bienvenue

I was asleep, in the upstairs bedroom, in the rear of the house. There was this tremendous crash, there was a terrible wind force hitting my body, and then I blanked out. — Larry Miller

I release you, my beautiful and terrible fear. I release you. You were my beloved and hate twin, but now, I don't know you as myself — Joy Harjo

The aphorist is a hit and run artist. — Mason Cooley

What you picture in your mind, your mind will go to work to accomplish. When you change your pictures you automatically change your performance — Zig Ziglar

If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of America. — Henry David Thoreau