In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

George William Curtis

I have been to the end of the earth,I have been to the end of the waters,I have been to the end of the sky,I have been to the end of the mountains,I have found none that are not my friends.

American Indian Proverb, Navajo

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Bertolt Brecht

He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.

Anita Diamant

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

Henry David Thoreau

You have to do many things yourself. Things that you cannot delegate.

Nadine Gramling

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.

Maurice Sendak

Everybody hangs out with everybody, which is very strange for a cast this large and this young. We're all cool and down to earth and not caught up in this maniacal business at all... . Everybody really, really likes everybody else.

Lizzy Caplan

Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.

Lily Tomlin

The grace of God, says Luther, is like a flying summer shower. It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.

Alexander Maclaren

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

Elvis Presley

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

Rodney Dangerfield