Middle Colonies Quotes

#1. In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.

Albert Bushnell Hart

#2. I was at the end of the studio system so when I walked into movies, I had a magnificent suite in which I had a living room and a kitchen and a complete makeup room. I had everything just for me. With the independents, you're kind of roughing it, literally.

Tippi Hedren

#3. Thinking is the most overrated human activity.

Wendell Berry

#4. I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

Aleister Crowley

#5. However, there is something worse than idealizing the past - or presenting it to ourselves and our children as a chamber of horrors: forgetting it.

Tony Judt

#6. Did you hear the one about the elderly Jew on his deathbed who sent for a priest, after declaring to his astonished relatives that 'I want to convert.' Asked why he would become a Catholic, after living all his life as a Jew, he answered: 'Better one of them should die than one of us.'

Alan King

#7. Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible.

Paul Rogat Loeb

#8. It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this.

Francis Atterbury

#9. Many of the Iranian players show their Christian names on their shirts.

Clive Tyldesley

#10. My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.

Marian McPartland

#11. Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.

Lysander Spooner

#12. The stars folded themselves away as the sun peeked above the horizon and cracked open the sky and I kissed him and we laughed and it was good.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#13. I am a product of my native land, Tuscany, Italy.

Andrea Bocelli

#14. Everyone understands when you're disappointed and betrayed in a major way.

Kristine A. Wolberg

#15. I am only at home in the present.

Gore Vidal

#16. It is not possible to be original except on a basis of tradition.

D.W. Winnicott