Semmens On Dort Quotes

#1. But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

#2. Dwarf is dwarf even at the top of the mountain; giant is giant even at the bottom of the well!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. Perhaps because when everyone they knew and loved continued to die, they realized the value of distance, of not losing one's self completely to love.

Caroline Hanson

#4. Hello. (Serenity)
I've killed over a hundred men. Half of them I kill for simply saying hello. (Ushakii)

Kinley MacGregor

#5. You can make a day of any size.

Mario Iezzoni

#6. The avant-garde understands itself as invading unknown territory, exposing itself to the dangers of sudden, shocking encounters, conquering an as yet unoccupied future ... The avant-garde must find a direction in a landscape into which no one seems to have yet ventured.

Jurgen Habermas

#7. Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception.

Liam Neeson

#8. The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Susan Sontag