
Source: Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
A collection of quotes on the topic of transplantation, likeness, life, people.
Source: Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
Source: You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day
Barcelona - Dada, 1917
1915 - 1940
Source: a letter to Enric C. Ricart, 1 October 1917; as quoted in Calder Miró, ed. Elizabeth Hutton Turner / Oliver Wick; Philip Wilson Publishers, London 2004, p. 47
Mazurek, Maria (7 July 2017): Cudowna armia, która broni naszego ciała http://plus.gazetakrakowska.pl/magazyn/a/cudowna-armia-ktora-broni-naszego-ciala,12271571. Gazeta Krakowska (in Polish), pp. 18–19.
2000s, 2009, Interview with Neil Cavuto (2009)
"Rossa's Recollections 1838 to 1898: Memoirs of an Irish Revolutionary", p. 143
Quote was introduced with the phrase:
In the lecture on the weaver's art, we are reminded of the superiority of Indian muslins and Chinese and Persian carpets, and the gorgeous costumes of the middle ages are contrasted with our own dark ungraceful garments. The Cufic inscriptions that have so perplexed antiquaries, were introduced with the rich Eastern stuffs so much sought after by the wealthy class, and though, as Mr. Burges observes
Source: Art applied to industry: a series of lectures, 1865, p. 85; Cited in: " Belles Lettres http://books.google.com/books?id=0EegAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA143" in: The Westminster Review, Vol. 84-85. Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1865. p. 143
"On Cloning a Human Being", p. 52
The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher (1979)
Discourse no. 13, delivered on December 11, 1786; vol. 2, p. 134.
Discourses on Art
Source: What On Earth Is About To Happen… For Heaven’s Sake? (2013), p. 145
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People
Original: (zh-CN) 学习有两种态度。一种是教条主义的态度,不管我国情况,适用的和不适用的,一起搬来。这种态度不好。另一种态度,学习的时候用脑筋想一下,学那些和我国情况相适合的东西,即吸取对我们有益的经验,我们需要的是这样一种态度
A Triumph of Spanish Colonial Style (1916)
Source: The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927), p. 177
Prefatory note
The Displacement Of Population In Europe, 1943
“God will transplant the root, if he wills to rear it into fruit-bearing.”
Letter (Spring 1850).
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852)
Context: I feel perfectly willing to stay my threescore years and ten, if it be thought I need so much tuition from this planet; but it seems to me that my future upon earth will soon close. It may be terribly trying, but it will not be so very long, now. God will transplant the root, if he wills to rear it into fruit-bearing.
Gompers v. United States, 233 U.S. 604, 610 (1914).
1910s
Source: Nippon.com Profile/Article by Julian Ryall - Woman Arborist Heals Trees, Parks, Souls https://www.nippon.com/en/people/e00096/ - 9 May 2016 - Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20211107072427/https://www.nippon.com/en/people/e00096/
Source: The Goi Peace Foundation Lecture Series - Lecture 18: Learning from trees - Lecture Series: Values for the 21st Century https://www.goipeace.or.jp/en/work/lecture/ - 4 Mar 2008 - Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20211107060323/https://www.goipeace.or.jp/en/work/lecture/