writer Quotes

• I think of rock ‘n’ roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop.

  - Bob Dylan

• I ask you all so earnestly to open girl’s schools in every village and try to uplift them. If the Conditions of women are raised, then their children will, by their noble actions, glorify the name of the Country.

  - Swami Vivekananda

• Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries – all living sentient creatures.

  - Paramahansa Yogananda

• This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.

  - James Joyce

• Teach me to go to the country beyond words and beyond names.

  - Thomas Merton

• The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

  - Karl Marx

• Children’s reading and children’s thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise.

  - Dr. Seuss

• I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.

  - Zora Neale Hurston

• In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

  - Saul Bellow

• A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.

  - Simone de Beauvoir