Quotes & Sayings About The Setting In Huck Finn

People in the West sometimes have these marvelous visions of India and Tibet. They assume that there are all these sadhus walking around and everybody is breathing enlightenment. Forget it. Don't look at it through rose-colored glasses. — Frederick Lenz

It seems like with you everything leads back to the subject of death."
"Sure and show me the person's road that does not lead to death. we try to divert our attention, to pretend 'tisn't so, but the very air we breathe is vulture's breath. Please don't be insinuatin' your man is morbid. I dwell on death in order to defeat it. — Tom Robbins

From the ashes of the Triangle Company fire began to rise one of the most dramatic and far-reaching [changes] in American history-one that would...eventually redefine forever the role the government played in the lives of ordinary people. — Ric Burns

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature. — David Mitchell

My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne. — Lea Michele

Persistence is nothing more than staying in motion — Ken Evoy

The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them. — Jack Hannah

That coincidence is God's way of staying invisible? — Wally Lamb