Autochthones Quotes

#1. The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. So long as I'm the president, my measure of success is victory
and success.

George W. Bush

#3. Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness.

Laozi

#4. Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

John Ruskin

#5. I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be.
I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.

Markus Zusak

#6. There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don't understand that

Larry Bird

#7. Into the statue that breathes, the soul of the sculptor is bidden.

Richard Realf

#8. There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.

Ovid

#9. And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay.

Chico Hamilton

#10. Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is the man (n. 368)
(Divine Love and Wisdom, 1763)

Emanuel Swedenborg

#11. His fingers, frozen in midfidget on his good knee, said
PEOPLE AREN'T SUPPOSED TO ASK ME THAT.
Either that or
I HAVE JUST BEEN SHOT THROUGH THE PAPER SCREEN.
He wasn't bleeding.

Jennifer Echols

#12. I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.

Tim Robbins

#13. An ax came through the door. Then two firefighters. They looked down at and assistant mall manager crying and wearing a melted toupee, sitting cross-legged next to a mall cop with a bleeding ankle and a mouth full of paper.
One of the firefighters look at the other. Not again.

Tim Dorsey

#14. I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.

Carol Ann Duffy