Gertrude Stein Quotes

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

Gertrude Stein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946

Topics

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It's important to say that depression has biological underpinnings, and that while medications do not seem to create irreversible changes in the brain, repeated depressive episodes do.

Andrew Solomon

DepressionBrainCreateImportant

I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.

Angus Young

PastKnowStagePimpleBandsAny

When you're dealing with a small community, every person counts.

Amanda Warren

CommunitySmallYouPersonDealing

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

Sugata Mitra

LearningImaginationQuestionsSkill

I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I must write into a play.

Tom Stoppard

CharacterWomanManI AmPlayWrite

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Robert A. Heinlein

GoodBeautifulFlowersSeedsDoing

When I was doing missionary work when I was younger, which started this obsession of mine with the literature of witness, I was a translator for a missionary group, and I spent years in a Tijuana dump. People were really thrown by the fact that the Mexican poor, many of them pureblood indigenous people, seemed happy.

Luis Alberto Urrea

WorkHappyPeopleLiteratureDoing

If someone accuses me of not being born here, I can go -within 10 minutes - to my filing cabinet and I can pick up my real birth certificate and I can go, 'See? Look! Here it is. Here it is.'

Luke Scott

MeSomeoneLookI CanBornGo

Usually, I'll just be walking from my house to somewhere else, and melodies and words will start coming up, and I'll have to run home to write it all down.

Lucy Dacus

HomeWordsStartWalkingHouseDown

From my childhood, I have watched a lot of action films, and I am a big fan of Jackie Chan.

Disha Patani

ChildhoodI AmActionBigBig Fan

I'm no birther, don't get me wrong.

Christopher Monckton

MeWrongGet

If you think about what everyone else will think, you forget to just make music.

Chris Stapleton

MusicThinkYouForgetWillJust

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