T.R. Wallace Quotes

once it's jam, it can't be strawberries anymore.

Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.

National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free.

Most Jews do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer... and we are his chosen people.

All men die, but not all men really live.

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.

Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The god that you believe in, and the god that I believe in, maybe different gods; however, the God that made you, and the God that made me, They are the same God.

Incompetence is often highly regarded in governmental circles.

Deep in the human heart The fire of justice burns; A vision of a world renewed Through radical concern.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

I tell ye true, liberty is the best of all things; never live beneath the noose of a servile halter.

The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.

When the shadow of death blots out my joy And erases the face of the sun Give me strength to endure, hope to believe That living and dying are one.

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.

She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.

One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.

I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'

Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

If you have not consciously made the decision to be rich, excellent, and healthy, then you have unconsciously made the decision to be poor, mediocre, and unhealthy.

If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.

I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.

It's better to die than to never really have lived.

I want to make sure that the Coast Guard people in Vietnam know that I am hearing about them often and that I am pleased with what I hear.

I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?

Hard writing makes easy reading.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith.

Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!

Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.

A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

All you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.

Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won. Then never live within the Bond of Slavery.

Where oil is first found is in the minds of men

How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.

To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.