#erica

As you know, I have always been curious about our immortality... how it feels to live on and on through time....I need speculate no longer, I have sampled eternity in Miss Campbell's fifth period "social studies" class. Three days on the concept of "manifest destiny," Vasile. THREE DAYS. I yearned to stand up, rip her lecture notes from her pallid hands, and scream, 'Yes, America expanded westward! Is that not logical, given that Europeans settled on the Eastern shore? What else were they to do? Advance vainly into the sea? ↗

— Beth Fantaskey

#anger #eternity #manifest-destiny #social-studies #anger

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#america #back #became #came #drop-out

You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#america #back #became #came #drop-out

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#america #cannot #colossal #course #denied

An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty. ↗

— DMX

#fundamental #guilty #important #innocence #judicial

We have to face it: in America today the way to have fun and celebrate is to break a store window and take something. That's the way it is, today in America, and we have to accept it. ↗

— Richard J. Daley

#america #break #celebrate #face #fun

There is no question of the benefits that opening a market of a billion people will bring to American businesses. But as I said last year, this will test China and the world trade system. ↗

— William M. Daley

#american businesses #benefits #billion #bring #businesses

You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people. ↗

— Russell Simmons

#america #become #cool thing #diversity #know

The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#allows #american #american people #country #go

In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#fact #obsession #other #parts #sex