Autochthones Quotes & Sayings

I like that she doesn't hover around me, just waiting for something to break off that she could scoop up and glue back into place. — Angela Wolbert

I had to face: I had chosen. My choice, this was love. I had chosen I think the way out of the chains of the cage. I needed this woman. Without her to choose over myself, there was only pain and not choosing, rolling drunkenly and making fantasies of death. — David Foster Wallace

In an address before the "Academia," which had been organized to combat "science falsely so called," Cardinal Manning declared his abhorrence of the new view of Nature, and described it as "a brutal philosophy to wit, there is no God, and the ape is our Adam." ... These attacks from such eminent sources set the clerical fashion for several years. — Andrew Dickson White

My kids just brought home a beautiful pumpkin, but you know what? I'm going to return it because it's a Democratic pumpkin. It has the orange color of John Kerry's tan, and the roundness of Teddy Kennedy. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you. — Peter O'Toole

In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be a little off-kilter. — John D'Agata

The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil. — Henry David Thoreau

Regardless of Bill Clinton's politics or personal life, he grew up in obscurity and was elected to the presidency - twice. Don't take that away from him, because then you take it away from every other kid in America sitting out there in a school bus with a big dream. — Mike Huckabee