Caught In Providence Quotes & Sayings

No one is entitled to anything. Everything we get in this life we have worked for. And sometimes we take on baggage we never even signed up for, but that dosen't mean you deserve it. I wake up everyday wishing I could change things, but I can't change past. All I can do is change the future. — E.M. Youman

During the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, winds were past 200 miles per house and people caught outside were sandblasted to death. Rescue workers found nothing but their shoes and belt buckles ... In 1938, the hurricane put downtown Providence, Rhode Island, under 10 feet of ocean. The waves generated by that storm were so huge that they literally shook the earth; seismographs in Alaska picked up their impact 5,000 miles away. — Sebastian Junger

Proverbs 15:1 A gentle answer turns away anger, but a harsh word stirs up wrath. — Robert J. Morgan

When art as an expression starts to appear, without prompting, all over the suburbs and villages of this country, what we are saying is: we are confident enough to create our own living, our own entertainment, our own aesthetic. Such an aesthetic will not be donated to us from the corridors of a university; or from the Ministry of Culture, or by the French Cultural Centre. It will come from the individual creations of a thousand creative people — Binyavanga Wainaina

Who can ... guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time is a child playing a game of draughts; the kingship is in the hands of a child. — Heraclitus

We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness. — Thomas Carlyle