#lions

Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute. ↗

— Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

#defense #millions #tribute

That's when I hear the scream. So full of fear and pain it ices my blood. And so familiar. I drop the spile, forget where I am or what lies ahead, only know I must reach her, protect her. I run wildly in the direction of the voice, heedless of danger, ripping through vines and branches, through anything that keeps me from reaching her. From reaching my little sister. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss-everdeen #primrose-everdeen #suzanne-collions #the-hunger-games #trilogy

Katniss, got that spile?" Finnick asks, snapping me back to reality. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#finnick-odair #suzanne-collions #the-hunger-games #trilogy #katniss

When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products? ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#birds #come #contact #digest #happens

I can run a thousand miles and wait a million years for you if you love me. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#millions #thousand-miles #love

They offered me millions and millions and millions of dollars to write books about Cary. That was between us. That was private. I'll always love him. ↗

— Dyan Cannon

#always #between #books #cary #dollars

Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#colored #die #everywhere #four #going

We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#millions #most #must #our #over

How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind? ↗

— Joel Barlow

#could #dearth #fear #how #left

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#ask #disapprove #done #good #harm