The Awakening Symbolism Quotes & Sayings

Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden — Karl Kraus

Life has a strange way of working itself out — David Cook

These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment. — Wilfred Owen

He was too handsome, too strong-willed, too wealthy, too daring, and otherwise not ideal. — Becky Wade

My sense, although I don't remember discussing it with anyone, was that with the fall of France to the Nazis in June 1940, European civilization had collapsed. I also recalled that although both George Herbert Mead and John Dewey had been born in New England, they developed their distinctively American philosophy of pragmatism in Chicago. So thinking of my own New England roots, I decided to go to Chicago, which, seen through Carl Sandburg's eyes, was the opposite of European decadence: Hog Butcher for the World, Tool maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler, Stormy, husky, brawling. City of the Big Shoulders.7 — Grace Lee Boggs

I pulled out my phone as I hurried along and texted Abby, U OK? I had to stop while I texted because I am not a teenager. — Chris Fabry

Now that I've got the will of the people at my back, I'm going to start enforcing the one-question rule. That was three questions. — George W. Bush

The moment the game (AL Pennant versus the Twins) was over I sprinted for the dugout. The fans were pouring onto the field. If they'd caught me they'd have torn my uniform into shreds for souvenirs. — Carl Yastrzemski

'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' by Betty Smith is one of my favorites. Even though it doesn't have any monsters or crazy fantasy in it, it's such a raw story, and I can really relate to the characters. I think it's a beautiful story. — Amandla Stenberg

Gentlemen, my father always detested me because I could not understand mathematics. I understand only love and liberty. — Victor Hugo

Rule of thumb: Eat for what you're going to be doing, and not for what you have done. Don't take in more than you're willing to burn off. — Lee Haney

The greatest sign of ignorance is a closed mind. — Charles F. Glassman

When this interchange of Christian name was effected, Madame Defarge, picking her teeth with her toothpick, coughed another grain of cough, and raised her eyebrows by the breadth of another line. — Charles Dickens

I have seen some terrifically exciting changes with young players coming into the squad which is reinvigorated. The older players and the whole group has been refreshed by the youth and enthusiasm that has come into the team. I think that has been misunderstood and misrepresented in certain quarters to the detriment of Indian cricket. — Greg Chappell