Quotes About Levittown

#1. In large Victorian houses with many rooms and heavy doors, the occupants could be mysterious and exciting to one another in a way that those who live in rackety developments can never hope to be. Not even the lust of a Lord Byron could survive the fact of Levittown.

Gore Vidal

#2. My father firmly embraced the Ralph Kramden philosophy: he was king of his Levittown castle. He worked hard, and his family deferred to his wishes. Except me. I did not defer and was disciplined accordingly.

Bill O'Reilly

#3. I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

Bill Griffith

#4. Today there are more than three billion people around the world who lack access to clean drinking water and basic sanitation systems. In absolute numbers, we have gone backward as a species.

Steven Johnson

#5. Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.

Emily Bronte

#6. Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next generation, the Kingdom of God will fail.

Sheri L. Dew

#7. For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#8. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#9. Work with sound until you are absolutely amazed that you can produce such a sound and it seems to you that you are just the instrument to which the divine pied piper blows the whisper of the incantations of his magic spell.

Vilayat Inayat Khan

#10. Sometimes Karl, you have to realize your weeknesses and be willing to discuss them with adults.

Molly Maguire McGill

#11. Once you get on the ship, everything is fine. Once you get on land, everything is not so fine.

Johnny Depp

#12. The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life.

Hermann Hesse