#be

Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed. ↗

— Julius Sterling Morton

#consumed #each #earth #exhausted #forests

I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#actually #being #believe #between #fine

What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#care #change #circle #crime #get

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens. ↗

— Grandma Moses

#better #better off #chickens #know #off

I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded. ↗

— Elizabeth Moss

#being #child #child actor #daughter #ever

Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine. ↗

— Robert Moses

#chaos #divine #evidence #finds #further

When they told him this, Ransom at last understood why mythology was what it was -- gleams of celestial strength and beauty falling on a jungle of filth and imbecility. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#beauty

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#black #good #great #had #mediocre

When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#became #lawyer #marshall #particularly #race

I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water, and was prepared to give up everything in life, he could do it. ↗

— Stirling Moss

#could #everything #give #i #i believe