Upbringing Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates. — John Ruskin

[T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy personal psychological needs ... but lack the ideas or the means to contribute to the technical base. — E. O. Wilson

I have about 40 cars, of which 25 to 30 are what you might call serious. — Nick Mason

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act. — Wayne Dyer

So help me, if something crawls out of one of these bags, I will castrate you."
"I bet you'd love that."
-Emma and Jackson — Rachael Wade

This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden — Horace

The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated. — Salman Rushdie

I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool. — James Blunt

I thought of Shakespearean chiasmus. A chiasmus in language is a crisscross structure. A doubling back sentence. A doubling of meaning. My favorite is "love's fire heats water, water cools not love." As a motif, a chiasmus is a world within a world where transformation is possible. In the green world events and actions lose their origins. Like in dreams. Time loses itself. The impossible happens as if it were ordinary. First meanings are undone and remade by second meanings. — Lidia Yuknavitch

If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him. — Henry David Thoreau