Top 34 P.d. Eastman Quotes
#1. A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
Max Eastman
#2. The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.
Charles Eastman
#4. Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars.
Leo Baekeland
#5. Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.
Max Eastman
#7. Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?
Charles Alexander Eastman
#8. Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Max Eastman
#10. The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.
Charles Eastman
#11. The red man divided mind into two parts, - the spiritual mind and the physical mind.
Charles Eastman
#12. There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.
Charles Eastman
#13. I read the last paragraph of my favorite book. I remind myself that some things I love end. And that's okay.
Ari Eastman
Ari Eastman
#14. was proud of them because he himself had painted them. The order for the seats amounted to $90,000. Who do you suppose got the order - James Adamson or one of his competitors? From the time of this story until Mr. Eastman's death,
Dale Carnegie
#15. No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute ... In connection with what other illegal vice is the seller alone penalized, and not the buyer?
Crystal Eastman
#16. Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes.
Chuck Mangione
#17. You are not my mother. You are a scary Snort!
P.D. Eastman
#18. There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.
Max Eastman
#19. The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.
Charles Eastman
#20. A good reputation is measured by how much you can improve the lives of others.
George Eastman
#21. A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
Max Eastman
#22. It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
Max Eastman
#23. The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.
George Eastman
#24. The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.
Charles Eastman
#25. Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
Charles Eastman
#26. Men will not give up their privilege of helplessness without a struggle.
Crystal Eastman
#27. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
Charles Eastman
#28. The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.
George Eastman
#29. Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.
Crystal Eastman
#30. People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.
Max Eastman
#31. The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.
Max Eastman
#32. Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.
Max Eastman
#33. It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.
Crystal Eastman
#34. He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.
Max Eastman
