Quotes About Renaissance Literature

#1. His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered. I

Elie Wiesel

#2. This is the difference between U.S. Latina/o letters and Latina/o Letters from Latin America: In the United States, writing is a business. In Latin America, writing is life and death.

Daniel Pena

#3. Canada is like a nice family living over a biker bar ... They keep telling the downstairs neighbors to keep down the noise, people are trying to sleep.

Dustin Hoffman

#4. What did I owe you, Peter? Truth and justice? If judges would judge, if lawyers wouldn't trick, if reporters would tell what really happened instead of what sold papers. Fat

Judy Blundell

#5. Latin is already a dead language, man ... don't make it any deader.

Jerry Scott

#6. For this I weep all my days
and throughout my lifetime grieve
that I swam from my own lands
and came from familiar lands
towards these strange doors
to these foreign gates.

Elias Lonnrot

#7. I was lucky enough to be a child during the renaissance of Australian children's literature, when people like Ivan Southall, Colin Thiele, Lilith Norman and Wrightson were pumping out hugely inspiring stuff.

Catherine Jinks

#8. As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

Debbie Allen

#9. Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!
Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

#10. A veritable atlas. What rivers of desire, what mountains of ambition. Want, want, hope, hope, this is what your palm say, your palm is nothing but an atlas of impossible longings.

Anuradha Roy

#11. Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?

Lawrence G. Lovasik

#12. I would say a full-time waiter in a high-price house could easily make $75,000, $80,000 a year.

Tom Douglas

#13. Pride is nothing more than us highlighting us.

Kevin Thoman

#14. Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happened, flavoured with a dash of sorcery and spiced with dragons. I take that as a compliment.

George R R Martin

#15. Our thoughts of literary renaissance should always center themselves on the removal of superstition, meanness, indignity and ignorance.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#16. The enormously diverse culture where people can agree and disagree is just amazing, and to learn about the events that took place here over millennia has been fantastic. It's a trip I'll never forget.

Miguel Ferrer

#17. All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system.

Tommy McCarthy

#18. Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream.

Jean Toomer

#19. Your suspicion alone is more than enough justification for preventing time alone with your child. You

Gavin De Becker