Seductresses In History Quotes & Sayings

There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly). — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Sugar and salt and kicks and kisses. — Kami Garcia

Only the mad girls chase me, I think. — Prince William

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country. — J.F. Kennedy

I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity). — Elie Wiesel

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced. — Abbas Kiarostami

I am too busy with my cause to hate too absorbed in something bigger than myself. I have no time to quarrel, no time for regrets and no man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him. — Lawrence James

People are the common denominator of progress. So ... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills,and the other familiar furniture of economic development ... But we are coming to realize ... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first. — John Kenneth Galbraith

We travel to ancient times by reading history books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the hierarchical tradition. — Eugene Kennedy

I think that every record has its own life and a different sound. — Claudio Simonetti