Quotes & Sayings About Jim In My Antonia

Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly. — William Julius Wilson

Dividing earth and sky
is not the right way
to think about this wholeness.
It only allows one to live
at a more precise address--
were I to be searched for
I'd be found much faster.
My distinguishing marks
are rapture and despair.


From 'Sky', in the collection 'Miracle Fair — Wislawa Szymborska

There is no way any rational, reasonable person can say
that the Bush Administration has been good for America. — Janeane Garofalo

No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property. — Woodrow Wilson

People think, sports delivers a message. It's not just about winning and losing, although that's important. It's about other things, too. It demonstrates how it can say certain things about your culture and your society. — Gabe Polsky

That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields - harvests grace with joy. — Aberjhani

A person who wields power cannot see truth; that is the privilege of the powerless. — Lesslie Newbigin

So I take my lover, my king, and I put him in a pedestal and I cut him down. A man, like the ones who ruined the world. — Alaya Dawn Johnson