Mccrossins Philadelphia Quotes & Sayings

I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it. — Paul Cezanne

Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention. — Howie Carr

The government is a functionary of the corporations - and there's nothing new about that. You can find people in the 1930s talking about the army basically working for Wall Street in all of these countries [it invades]. — Henry Rollins

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase. — Anne Fadiman

I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it. — Emily Bronte

Let go of Osama Bin Laden, let go of books where bombs go off and people die, let go of this war you have no scale for, that you don't understand. — Lavie Tidhar

The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology. — John Burroughs

Why?" Lon asks in a whine. "We spent half the summer marking these paths!" I think I see a faint smile on Ky's face and I realize that he likes Lon. Who asks the questions no one else will ask even though he never gets an answer. It strikes me that this is a kind of bravery. A wearing-down kind of bravery, but bravery nonetheless. — Ally Condie

The most critical problem we face, not only in the barrios, but in Nicaragua and Central America, is that of the threat of an invasion by the United States. — Jackie Jackson

She never gave up adoring our father, but he ceased to be, for her, the larger-than-life hero I continued to make him into. For Patty, he was more like a deeply lovable spaniel who keeps peeing on the rug and chewing on the upholstery, no matter how many times you tell him not to. — Joyce Maynard