Upsweep Quotes

#1. A tree is an aerial garden, a botanical migration from the sea, from those earliest plants, the seaweeds; it is a purchase on crumbled rock, on ground. The human, standing, is only a different upsweep and articulation of cells. How treelike we are, how human the tree.

Gretel Ehrlich

#2. What you wish to do you are apt to think you ought to do.

Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

#3. Do what is right at a given moment and leave it behind

Ramana Maharshi

#4. How could you afford to buy me those shoes today?
Flushed, he groans into my ear, "You made me."
"I did not."
"You made me love you.

Sarah Hina

#5. Clad not exactly as a boy but, rather confusingly, as the boy I would have been, had I been more of a girl

Sarah Waters

#6. I would rather see the moon fall than see you cry.

Lauren Stewart

#7. Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.

Randall Robinson

#8. Michigan has a lot at stake in the defense industry, and the defense industry has a lot at stake in Michigan.

Sander Levin

#9. Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Ambrose Bierce

#10. Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

Mary Astell

#11. If you don't know the blues ... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

Keith Richards

#12. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

Peter F. Drucker