Sixteenth Summer Quotes

#1. We may justly condemn ourselves as the greatest sinners we know because we know more of the folly of our own heart than we do of other people's.

William Law

#2. Folks out in the country couldn't afford to pay for anybody else to make music. They had to make their own. So the peasantry had their music, and it was about a hundred years ago given the name "Folk music".

Pete Seeger

#3. They love you for the same reasons they don't love anyone else.

Tijan

#4. The fracking chemicals sit in open pits, get trucked around, or sent through pipelines that can burst. What do you think happens when frack chemicals and floods and storm swollen rivers mix?

Mark Ruffalo

#5. When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people - along with despair about its future.

Noam Chomsky

#6. You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

Barbara Bush

#7. Friends are God's apology for relations.

Hugh Kingsmill

#8. If America is addicted to foreign money and foreign oil, then China is addicted to foreign supplies of just about every commodity known to man - save highly polluting coal.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

#9. Some things are better eschewed than chewed; tobacco is one of them.

George D. Prentice

#10. Turkey, fearing attack by Russia, took Germany's side and declared war against the czar by bombarding the port of Odessa.

Joseph E. Persico

#11. Young love sucked. Old love wasn't much easier, but at least you had some scar tissue built up around your heart to make it hurt a little less.

Tere Michaels

#12. If I can make an economic deal with Amazon that works for them and works for me, OK - I'll make it available. But I don't want to be part of restrictions that make life difficult for my guests.

Gerry Lopez

#13. The fact that some people are opposed on religious grounds mainly, well, that doesn't bother me as long as they're not allowed to influence other people by force or by whatever other means.

Henry Morgentaler

#14. Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.

Ai Weiwei

#15. Being alive can kill you. It can make you completely irrational.

Sarah Bredeman