The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified heads, fills citified ears—as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk happy.
—Frank Lloyd Wright, 1958
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The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.
—Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1510He who travels by sea is nothing but a worm on a piece of wood, a trifle in the midst of a powerful creation. The waters play about with him at will, and no one but God can help him.
—Muhammad as-Saffar, 1846We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.
—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845Never greet a stranger in the night, for he may be a demon.
—Babylonian Talmud, c. 600There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.
—Voltaire, 1759How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833In dealing with the dead, if we treat them as if they were entirely dead, that would show a want of affection and should not be done; or, if we treat them as if they were entirely alive, that would show a want of wisdom and should not be done.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCBy and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, 1989Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932Do you not see how God is praised by those in the heavens and those on earth? The very birds praised Him as they wing their way.
—The Qur’an, c. 620