Quotes That Move Me

“When one is in the Bad Lands, he feels as if they somehow look exactly as Poe’s tales and poems seemed.” –Teddy Roosevelt

“Nowhere, not even at sea, does a man feel [lonelier] than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains.” –Teddy Roosevelt

“Let us honor this soldier for peace in a fitting manner. Let us rededicate ourselves to bringing about the democracy he fought for all his life; democracy that will bring real, tangible change in the lives of the working people, the poor, the jobless, the landless.” –Nelson Mandela

Be good to each other,

-Nathan  

Quotes That Move Me

“If I read the temper of our people correctly, we now realize as we have never realized before our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take but we must give as well.” –Franklin D. Roosevelt

“They left the sidewalk. Snow rose to their ankles. They were in an open field, walking toward a bottomless darkness. She moved with quiet precision, as one moves in the face of the inevitable. He held her hand. Behind them, the red glow of the city breathed into the sky. Ahead of them, the sky bent to the earth, or the earth rose to the sky, and their bodies were cutting the two apart.” –Ayn Rand

“But the realist, however shocked and disappointed by the frailties of those he adores, will look at human behavior from all sides objectively and will concentrate on those qualities in a person which are edifying, which lift your spirit [and] kindle one’s enthusiasm to live.” –Nelson Mandela

Thanks for entering my world,

-Nathan