Charles Willson Peale Quotes

#1. You [Chopin] have in your fingers an orchestra of butterflies.

Adam Mickiewicz

#2. For that was mom's trump card: she was the mother, and so possessed a mysterious and unquestioned authority. Dad was the boss, but Mom was the power.

Joyce Carol Oates

#3. I really did go back to Dresden with Guggenheim money (God love it) in 1967. It looked a lot like Dayton, Ohio, more open spaces than Dayton has.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. I'm a history geek and I love American history. It's so bizarre and so problematic and I love the many conundrums that it represents. You can go down so many black holes.

Matana Roberts

#5. The more you travel, the more well-off you'll be, I think.

RJ Mitte

#6. The Learner must be led always from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it were, a chain of flowers into the mysteries of life.

Charles Willson Peale

#7. The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat".

Charles Stross

#8. We left because some people choose to wait for news and others make their own.

Josh Malerman

#9. Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

Saint Augustine

#10. The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.

Ebenezer Elliott

#11. Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.

Nelson Mandela

#12. The duty that we owe to the Universe is our religion.

Krishnananda Saraswati