Derby day in Buenos Aires is completely crazy and those sort of experiences have shaped me. Erik Lamela Read Quote
On Halloween, kids get to assume, for one night the outward forms of their innermost dread, and they’re also allowed to take candy from strangers – the scariest thing of all. Kate Christensen Read Quote
Evolution is a fact. It is the best explanation of what is known from observations. It’s a theory as powerful as the theory of gravity. Donald Johanson Read Quote
I’m not 17 anymore. I still have some of the same sort of anger, but I have a sense of humor about it… a sense of being constructive with that anger. Dave Pirner Read Quote
So I was thinking I go to America. I think that would work, conquering America. Because they’re so upbeat and positive and polite. Diane Morgan Read Quote
I once bought some enormous fireworks that were literally the size of sticks of dynamite. We would go into the field behind our house, slide them into the biggest cow pats we could find, and blow them sky high. It was exhilarating and, for the cows, incredibly confusing. Greg Davies Read Quote
I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn’t have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society. Charles Kuralt Read Quote
I think by embracing your heritage and your history, it just serves you so much more, and you become a deeper and more powerful person by embracing them. Emily Kuroda Read Quote
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it. Wendell Berry Read Quote