#recede

The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#century #changed #did #hardly #just

The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#also #beginnings #came #eight #father

As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly. ↗

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#blackness #child #does #forgets #i

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#current #era #helping #historical #history

With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#bit #blur #by the time #came #daughter

The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life. ↗

— Barney Frank

#american life #clinton #code #economic #increase

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#constitutes #continue #find #greatest #greatest pleasure

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#cause #degree #more #proletariat #revolution

Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#attended #church #decision #each #eternal

Literature precedes genre. ↗

— Rick Moody

#literature #precedes