Arturo Graf Quotes

Civilization is a terrible plant, which grows and blooms if its watered with tears and blood.

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• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • You
  • Mad

• Until he announced his immigration policy last week, Obama had the support of most Hispanic voters - but not the enthusiasm they had shown for him in 2008. That may be changing in part because of the decision not to deport young immigrants whose undocumented parents brought them here as children.

  

  Mara Liasson
  • Children
  • May
  • Parents

• I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Why
  • Happy
  • Know

• I never thought I would go into the dance charts.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Never
  • Dance
  • Thought

• I would like my kids to go to college and be exposed to the real world and to make their own decisions and find their own path instead of sending them somewhere where they would be creatively conditioned for one life path or another.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.

  

  Taylor Phinney
  • Football
  • Basketball
  • Very

• When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I was really disappointed because it was not at the level I saw in movies. It was not the level of the image I'd imagined.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Movies
  • Young
  • Level

• You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.

  

  Bill James
  • Winning

• It's very important to me that every person takes away their own meaning from a song, and it's why I don't always love spelling out what a song is about for somebody.

  

  Aubrie Sellers
  • Important
  • Why
  • Song

• I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Good
  • Money
  • Art

• It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • White
  • Sexuality
  • Chapel

• People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. BecauHse people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it’s true, or because they are afraid it might be true.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • Believe
  • True

• All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Evil
  • Citizens
  • Attempts

• There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Money
  • Power
  • Rest

• If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn't have happened.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Reason
  • Explore
  • Ballet

• The spirit of the Japanese nation is, by its nature, a thing that must be propagated over the seven seas and extended over the five continents. Anything that may hinder its progress must be abolished, even by force.

  

  Sadao Araki
  • May
  • Nature
  • Progress

• Civilization is a terrible plant, which grows and blooms if its watered with tears and blood.

  

  Arturo Graf
  • Blood
  • Plant
  • Civilization