Quotes Du Jour

�We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.�
- A. J. Toynbee (1889 � 1975), British historian: on population growth, in speech to World Food Congress, Washington, D.C., quoted in the �National Observer� (Maryland), June 10, 1963.

�The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense-cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and your are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.�
- George Steiner (b. 1929), French-born American critic and novelist: �In Bluebeard�s Castle�, 1971.

�What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye?
What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?�
- John Greenleaf Whittier (1807 - 1892), American poet: �The Pumpkin�, 1844.