#ada

My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life. ↗

— Maria Monk

#before #both #canada #city #had

I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#american #american women #brother #created #elder

I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming. ↗

— Roger Moore

#i #nowadays #often #oh #play

I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#adult #books #douglas #fun #get

Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved. ↗

— Giorgio Moroder

#america #artist #believe #hardly #involved

But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing. ↗

— Richard Morris

#else #hymns #much #norm #nowadays

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die. ↗

— William Morris

#arts #civilization #competition #degradation #die

To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe... it just doesn't happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#anything #art #books #cinema #come

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong. ↗

— Terence

#make #nowadays #rewarded #right #those

The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible. ↗

— Max Muller

#banished #begins #bible #chapters #clear