#ali

My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California. ↗

— Pete McCloskey

#california #half #i #lives #our

The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment. ↗

— Pete McCloskey

#college students #congress #environment #environmentalist #everyone

I don't think there is a good reason for an abortion, but Dr. Jasper made me really realize it was just a racket. He was just doing it for the money. He didn't care about the women. ↗

— Norma McCorvey

#about #care #doing #dr #good

I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy. ↗

— Bruce McCulloch

#anything #arm #baseball #got #great

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is. ↗

— David McCullough

#art #being #civic #enlargement #experience

When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair. ↗

— David McCullough

#before #british #chair #had #i

In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the life of words and images in art, radically and forever. It brought our culture into the age of mass-produced, industrialized death. This, at first, was indescribable. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#industrialization #language #wwi #age

I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story. ↗

— John McGahern

#forever #going #i #i think #important

I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story. ↗

— John McGahern

#comes #consciousness #difference #excitement #great

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#chatter #gossip #human #human race #lovers