Quotations
It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. FreePaperz now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
The Swamp
«As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
| Keywords:
avid, brow, castrate, castrated, castrates, castrating, cave, controlling, guilt-ridden, helpless, infant, lap, martyred, nourish, patriarchy, provoking, ridden, snakes, swamp, swamps, the Son, The Swamp
«Listen, lad. I built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest castle in these islands.»
«Buttercup: That's the fire swamp! We'll never survive Wesley: Nonsense! You're only saying that because no one ever has.»
«Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.»
Author: William Bernbach
| About:
Creativity
| Keywords:
claims, economically, lift, persuasive, practiced, properly, sales, sameness, swamp, swamps, The Swamp, urgent
«In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Dreams
| Keywords:
able, achieved, alive, alive with, approximate, approximates, at all, battle, Better To Travel, check, checking, check in, Check it out, check up on, come alive, cowardly, deserved, desired, distorted, distorting, estate, estates, estate for life, exists, fire, frustration, frustrations, go bad, go out, hero, hopeless, ill nature, intransigent, in check, in name, in name only, irreplaceable, I am alive, keep step, knowledge, loneliest, lonely, lose, man of the world, mindless, name, naming, not yet, Of Man, perish, perishing, possible, possible worlds, posture, postures, posturing, proper, quite, quite an, reach, real, Real Men, real name, road, roads, Road of Life, sacrifice, same name, spark, sparking, step, swamps, that name, The name, the same name, The Swamp, title, titled, travels, travel by, travel to, ugliest, ugly, unlimited, upright, values, vision, within, won, worst, yet
«RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. It is said to be rich in both obtundite and lethargine, and is brewed in a midnight fog by a fat which of the Dismal Swamp.»
«Hardy went down to botanize in the swamp, while Meredith climbed towards the sun. Meredith became, at his best, a sort of daintily dressed Walt Whitman: Hardy became a sort of village atheist brooding and blaspheming over the village idiot.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
blaspheming, botanize, climb down, daintily, dress down, Hardy, Meredith, swamp, swamps, The Swamp, Walt Whitman
«A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
righteous, surround, swamps, The Swamp, woods
«There can be no real peace while one American is dying some place in the world for the rest of us. We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it has been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening. . . . If we lose freedom here [in America], there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
American history, astonishment, faced, swamp, swamps, The Swamp, world record