Quotations

"On a day of burial there is no perspective— for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was— to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain."

— Antoine de Saint Exupery, French aristocrat, born June 29, 1900

"What makes the desert beautiful is that it hides a well somewhere."

— Antoine De Saint-Exupery, French writer, born 1900

"It's a question of discipline. The little prince told me: When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."

— Antoine De Saint Exupery, French aristocrat, born June 29, 1900

"Even our misfortunes are part of our belongings."

— Antoine De Saint-Exupery, French aristocrat, writer, poet, born June 29, 1900

"We allow each other so little enjoyment or even tolerance for our individualities, our uniquenesses, and yet to me, that's what it's all about."

— Buffy Sainte-Marie, Canadian-American singer, born February 20, 1941

"When I was three, I didn't play with other kids very much; I was kind of isolated. I got used to be being bullied and having to think my way out of situations in the same way that other kids would fight their way out. Then I discovered a piano, and it became my playmate."

— Buffy Sainte-Marie, Canadian-American singer, born February 20, 1941

"I've always thought that the most powerful weapon in the world was the bomb and that's why I gave it to my people, but I've come to the conclusion that the most powerful weapon in the world is not the bomb but it's the truth."

— Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist, born May 21, 1921

"More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of color, language, culture and opportunities, but people's feelings and reactions are alike. People flee wars to escape death, they migrate to improve their fortunes, they build new lives in foreign lands, they adapt to extreme hardship."

— Sebastiao Salgado, Brazilian photographer, born 1944

"In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen."

— Sebastiao Salgado, Brazilian photographer, born 1944

"If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture. That is my way of seeing things."

— Sebastiao Salgado, Brazilian photographer, born 1944

"It’s not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed."

— Sebastiao Salgado, Brazilian photographer, born 1944

"Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable, and lightness has a call that's hard to hear."

— Emily Saliers, American singer, born July 22, 1963

"How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground."

— J. D. Salinger, American writer, born 1919

"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."

— J. D. Salinger, American writer, born 1919