The spring is here, young and beautiful as ever, and absolutely shocking in its display of reckless maternity; but the Judas tree ...will bloom for you on the Bosphorus if you get there in time. No one ever loved the dog-wood and Judas tree as I have done, and it is my one crown of life to be sure that I am going to take them with me to heaven to enjoy real happiness with the Virgin and them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The last public hanging in the State took place in 1835 on Prince Hill.... On the fatal day, the victim, a man named Watkins, peer...ing through the iron bars of his cell, and seeing the townfolk scurrying to the place of execution, is said to have remarked, 'Why is everyone running? Nothing can happen until I get there.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We cannot spare our children the influence of harmful values by turning off the television any more than we can keep them home for...ever or revamp the world before they get there. Merely keeping them in the dark is no protection and, in fact, can make them vulnerable and immature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to ...enable us to get there.... Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts and cultiva...te these. There are hundreds and hundreds of ways to succeed and many, many different abilities that will help you get there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Listen to me. You come into this town, and you think you're headed somewhere, don't you? You think you're gonna get there with a g...un, but you're not. Get me. You know why, 'cause you got thousand dollar bills pasted right across your eyes. And someday you're gonna stumble and fall down in the gutter, right where the horses have been standin', right where you belong.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like--Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anyth...ing--but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So you'll face me with a court of inquiry, eh, in England. Well, Mr. Christian, we're a long way from England and what can happen ...on this ship before we get there may surprise even you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhe...re to get to.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »