Goddess Among Mortals Quotes & Sayings

It's been said that members of Congress love receiving pats on the back weekdays in Washington, D.C., but they would benefit greatly from going home regularly to receive valuable slaps on the back of the head in their districts. — Tim Walberg

Love must be the first thought and the last thought of the day, if you wish to live in peace and happiness. — Leon Brown

A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish. — Ismail Merchant

Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice. — Mason Cooley

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win. — George Wald

About Justice departing from the shepherds: Justice illustrates a passage from Virgil's Georgics, in which he describes how Astraea, the goddess of Justice, who used to live among mortals during the Golden Age, took refuge among country people, as times degenerated, and at length fled even from them. Rosa shows the cloud-borne goddess departing from a tumbledown farmstead as she hands her sword and scales to a bemused group of peasants, one of whom awkwardly pulls of his hat in respect. — Jonathan Scott