#ago

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon. ↗

— Pat Oliphant

#dragon #dragons #good #nixon #old

Or in the early days we didn't have the bus, we had a station wagon. ↗

— Mel Tillis

#days #early #had #station #wagon

I went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago. ↗

— Piper Perabo

#college #graduated #i #ohio #two

I'm just a stage actor from Chicago. ↗

— Jeremy Piven

#chicago #i #just #stage #stage actor

I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. ↗

— Edward M. Purcell

#experiments #eyes #first #i #i remember

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago. ↗

— Eric Carle

#book #certain #distance #done #how

So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds. ↗

— Countee Cullen

#bleeds #dark #heart #hide #our

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity. ↗

— James Keller

#ago #bear #carved #cell #condemned

I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike. ↗

— Genevieve Bujold

#alike #beings #contemporary #human #human beings

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting. ↗

— Ana Castillo

#am #asked #being #chicago #disorienting