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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

Henry David Thoreau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

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Culture Sheep True More Make Than

When I was hitching, I'd be completely decked out. I used to wear this custom-made black jumpsuit, these, like, pink, knee-high platform boots, all kinds of rhinestones, lots of dangling belts and gloves.

Pink Black Boots Out Wear Used

The period in the name - huge mistake, I know. We didn't think about that. We never thought we were going to be written up in magazines. The second we saw it in print, like, what a mistake, man.

Man Mistake Think Thought Name Know

I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack of meningitis, and that put me in a coma for a few months. It took me four years to get my memory back.

Memory Me Back Young Boy Years

I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

Work Ideas Small Sometimes Out Big

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

Stephen Hawking

Time Travel Impossible Understand

Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.

Smile Dance Drink Up Days Gone

I was raised going to church every Sunday.

Church Sunday I Was Raised Going

I don't have to research humanity, I just have to be courageous enough to share that part of myself with everybody.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Myself Research Enough Humanity Just

Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.

Constance Baker Motley

Today White Silent Race Question

I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love.

Love God Time People Bible Know

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

William Hazlitt

Living Poor Dead Remembered Being

I still want to direct. That's my main love, and that comes from being obsessed with subtleties and people.

Love People Want Being Still Direct

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