Joan Maragall Quotes & Sayings

You cannot teach a bird to fly, only how to let go his branch and begin to fall. — Tim Ward

The wild is where you find it, not in some distant world relegated to a nostalgic past or an idealized future; its presence is not black or white, bad or good, corrupted or innocent... We are of that nature, not apart from it. We survive because of it, not instead of it. — Renee Askins

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. — Friedrich Nietzsche

After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance. — Steve Israel

Without heads, where might they keep their minds, if they have them?" Kebes put in. "In their livers, obviously," Sokrates said. — Jo Walton

I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain. One of the great Catalan poets, Joan Maragall, wrote this famous poem in which he called Barcelona the great enchantress, or some kind of sorceress, and in which the city has this dark enticing presence that seduces and lures people. I think Barcelona has a lot of that. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy
love which creates life? — Emile Zola