Regions Quotes - Page 34

• Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who come, go, and do strange unfathomable thing in and around the child, the region's only enfranchised citizen.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Sibling, Real

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.7, Random House

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• How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow
  Into the arctic regions of our lives,
  Where little else than life itself survives.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Age, May, Littles

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America

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• I was always fond of visiting new scenes, and observing strange characters and manners. Even when a mere child I began my travels, and made many tours of discovery into foreign parts and unknown regions of my native city, to the frequent alarm of my parents, and the emolument of the town-crier.

  Washington Irving

  Children, Book, Character

  Washington Irving (1840). “History of New York. Sketch book. Bracebridge Hall”, p.185

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• Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.

  Juvenal

  Tyrants, Natural, Natural Death

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• United States is a great Country and has its effective role on the international arena, so we have to boost our relations with it, in order to achieve peace and stability in our region and the world.

  Bill Vaughan

  Country, Order, Arena

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• Order is the primary regulation of the celestial regions.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Order, Regulation, Celestial

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• A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.

  John Milton

  Flames, Light, Sight

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 61

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• Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies.

  Heinrich Heine

  Art, Exercise, Order

  Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”

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• making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by their editors.

  Margaret Atwood

  Editors, Cities, Judgement

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give a friendly welcome to newcomers. One of the disagreeable traits of our human nature seems to be to dislike on sight people who come later than the first settlers.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Sight, Long, People

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”

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• Clam chowder is one of those subjects, like politics or religion, that can never be discussed lightly. Bring it up even incidentally, and all the innumerable factions of the clam bake regions raise their heads and begin to yammer.

  Louis Pullig De Gouy

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

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• The day of our decease will be that of our coming of age; and with our last breath we shall become free of the universe. And in some region of infinity, and from among its splendors, this earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.

  William Mountford

  Death, Home, Age

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.76

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• In what region of the earth ever so remote from us, in what corner of creation ever so far out of the range of our communication, does not some burden lightened, some bond loosened, some yoke lifted, some labor better remunerated, some new hope for despairing hearts, some new light or new liberty for the benighted or the oppressed, bear witness this day, and trace itself, directly or indirectly, back to the impulse given to the world by the successful establishment and operation of free institutions on this American continent?

  Robert Charles Winthrop

  Communication, Heart, Successful

  Robert Charles Winthrop (1878). “Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1869-1879 [i.e. 1878”

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• In some remote regions of Islam it is said, a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.

  Raymond Mortimer

  Islam, Faces, Skirts

  Raymond Mortimer (1976). “Try anything once”, Hamish Hamilton

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• Much was said and written, at the time, concerning the policy of adding the vast regions of Louisiana, to the already immense, and but half-tenanted territories of the United-States.

  James F. Cooper

  Book, United States, Louisiana

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• It is not as mirrors reflect us but, rather, as our dreams do, that movies most truly reveal the times. If the dreams we have been dreaming provide a sad picture of us, it should be remembered that - like that first book of Dante's Comedy - they show forth only one region of the psyche. Through them we can read with a peculiar accuracy the fears and confusions that assail us - we can read, in caricature, the Hell in which we are bound. But we cannot read the best hopes of the time.

  Barbara Deming

  Movie, Dream, Book

  Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

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• The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group strongly supports green-line policies, because the only way to attract top level employees and their families is to protect the region's open space and environment. We want to build a community that is demonstrates smart growth rather than a model for L.A.-type growth.

  Carl Guardino

  Nature, Smart, Space

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• Canada, the United States and Mexico, we developed these energy reserves that we have in this North American region. And you can see a not only driving down the cost of electricity but a major manufacturing boom in this country. Couple that with tax policy, reduction, reducing the corporate tax rate, and that I think a renaissance in manufacturing like we've never seen in this country and really drive the economy.

  Rick Perry

  Country, Couple, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing this, the United States are going to absolute ruin.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Trying, Energy

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

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• The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  God, Soul

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• Like all passions, anger has degrees, ascending from slight vexation through deepening clouds to rage, and finally to fury, which is a black and horrible tempest. In its mid-region, where it is neither too little to be motive nor too furious to be ungovernable, it has usefulness. For all feeling is as fuel, and where there is none life has no fire, and then no flame of ascent.

  James Vila Blake

  Anger, Passion, Fire

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• The American administration is trying to achieve any gain in the shadow of the embarrassment hitting it because of its failures in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine after the failure of Israel's war on Lebanon and the retreat of America's project in the region.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  War, Israel, Iraq

  "Senior Shiite Cleric Says U.S. Desperate". Forbes, August 7, 2007.

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• What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Believe, Responsibility

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Contentment, Analysis, Asking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.208, Penguin

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• Were the Inhabitants of Italy charming as their Country, all other Regions would be depopulated I think.

  Bill Vaughan

  Country, Thinking, Would Be

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