Eiderdowns Quotes

#1. For years the first of May was the day all leases expired, and on that day mass migrations would take place, with families lugging eiderdowns and ancestral portraits through the streets, as if in parody of the march of the wagon trains.

Luc Sante

#2. There are questions that are not meant to be answered with words. Some questions take a lifetime to answer. Take action.

J.R. Rim

#3. When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished ... that's kind of disappointing.

Joni Mitchell

#4. Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. I opened the doors and windows of America, and let the air and sunshine in.

Elsie De Wolfe

#6. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.

John Milton

#7. I don't get sent anything strange like underwear. I get sent cookies.

Jennifer Aniston

#8. It rolls the mid-most waters of the world, the Indian Ocean and Atlantic being just its arms.

Herman Melville

#9. Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.

Brian Tracy

#10. I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence

Martin Luther King Jr.

#11. Every man is his own hell.

H.L. Mencken

#12. Johnson had a sense of humor, and he could kid with me," he would say. "Johnson didn't enjoy talking with most liberals. He didn't think they had a sense of humor.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#13. I've always wanted people to know who they are from the inside. Then they can create the life they desire and deserve. I've always believed that my job was to facilitate the evolution of the human consciousness.

Iyanla Vanzant