Deadland Quotes & Sayings

Who we were shapes us into who we are, and who we are shapes us into who we'll become. — Rachel Aukes

[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

It must not be thought, however, that in pagan Ireland Fairyland was altogether conceived as a Hades or place of the dead. We have already seen that in some of its types and aspects it was inherently nothing of the sort; as when, for example, it came to be confused with the Land of the Gods. In all likelihood these separate paradises and deadlands of a nature so various were the result of the stratified beliefs of successive races dwelling in the same region. A conquering race would scarcely credit that its heroes would, after death, betake themselves to the deadland of the beaten and enslaved aborigines. The gods of vanquished races might be conceived as presiding over spheres of the dead for which their victors would have nothing but contempt, and which, because of that very contempt, might come to be conceived as hells or places of a debased and grovelling kind, pestiferous regions which only the spirits of despised "natives" or the undesirable might inhabit. — Lewis Spence

Whatever you didn't plan for, that's what's going to happen. — Rachel Aukes

Skill is the child of patience. — Charles Soule

The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions. — George Washington

The better and longer way is to describe the experience I want the users to have. That means describing the users' world and how my design fits in. — Giles Colborne

Some wounds don't heal; they aren't suppose to. — Alexis Bass