The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.

It is not that I belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me.

Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.

Such creatures of accident are we, liable to a thousand deaths before we are born. But once we are here, we may create our own world, if we choose.

I have so little mastered the art of tranquil living that wherever I go I trail storm clouds of drama around me.

What we get in steerage is not the refuse, but the sinew and bone of all the nations.

You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.

The past was only my cradle, and now it cannot hold me, because I am grown too big.

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

But now we got weapons Of the chemical dust If fire them we're forced to Then fire them we must One push of the button And a shot the world wide And you never ask questions When God's on your side

We can't replace Gary Speed - where do you get an experienced player like him with a left foot and a head?

To you, Fell. Can't you feel it? Inside you, as it lies inside all the Lera. Know thyself, wolf.

There are no victories at discount prices.

The manuscript in the drawer either rots or ripens.

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.

The life of an artist is not all glamorous. It's a lot of work. A lot of people think that it's very easy.

Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.

In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.