#ld

...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England. ↗

— Lemmy Kilmister

#world-war-ii

The "herrenvolk" [master race] are all around you, threading their way on their bicycles between the piles of rubble or rushing off with jugs and buckets to meet the water cart. It is queer to think that these are the people who once ruled Europe, from the Channel to the Caspian Sea and might have conquered our own island, if they had known how weak we were. ↗

— George Orwell

#world-war-ii

I didn't live in the world of disco or the world of the Eagles. ↗

— George Thorogood

#eagles #i #live #world

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ↗

— Jane Austen

#education #expense #further #girl #give

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear. ↗

— Judy Blume

#because #censorship #children #fear #kids

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#classy #fabulous #girl #should #things

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. ↗

— Robert Frost

#half #keep #nothing #other #people

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. ↗

— Alice Walker

#color #field #god #i #i think

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. ↗