Maksymowicz Quotes & Sayings

My children are my children. There's no doubt about that at all. They're very strong towards me, very protective, and I towards them. It works both ways. — Kiri Te Kanawa

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. — Charles Kendall Adams

The Stetson passage is an allusion to Frazer theory in The Golden Bough that religion originated as agricultural engineering. Through a grotesque process of literalization, all of the dying gods and heroes in The Golden Bough, along with Christ and the Fisher King, are transferred from mythic to modern consciousness ( Frazer himself was an unabashed positivist) to be made explicable in scientific terms as fertilizer. — Jewel Spears Brooker

I always wanted to be something, but now I see I should have been more specific. — Lily Tomlin

The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world. — Willa Cather