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Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet, and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: greek
Birth: February 18, 1883 - October 26, 1957

Topics

Feet Heaven Earth Nothing Within Us

The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.

Change Grow Stronger Way Unions

There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.

Love Freedom Doubt Desire Oppression

I've always been curious about why one man jumps out of a foxhole with a grenade and charges a machine gun nest, and his buddy next to him sits there cowering. And my feeling is that the difference is tiny between the two.

Man Curious Gun Feeling Why Nest

Fashion can often be dictated. It's what people think we should do or wear. Style is totally personal.

Style People Fashion Think Personal

I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.

Wisdom Face Teeth Out Because Taken

Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.

Dennis Bergkamp

Me Thoughts Never Sign Knew Once

My daughters are in kindergarten and second grade, so many of the stories they tell, write, or illustrate are about each other and our dog, Buster.

Dog Write Kindergarten Tell Second

All through my senior year, luckily, I didn't have too many hard classes, just a lot of electives. I was able to spend most of my time at the practice space.

Time Practice Space Year Hard Just

As a fiscal conservative, I believe one of the most important roles the federal government can play in assuring that our economy remains strong is to keep our fiscal house in order.

Government Believe Strong House Play

I used to love the Beatles and the Stones and I'd always want to hang out with them, even though they were about seven years older.

Love Want Always Years Out Hang

I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

Railroad Never Abandoned Lived

You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.

Past People Believe You House Place

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