#nourish

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. ↗

— Pauline Kael

#artist #civilization #country #culture #follow

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

#liberal #merely #mind #nourishes #practical

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#both #experience #game #human #human experience

It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#capacity #citizens #develop #duty #environment

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable. ↗

— Charles Trevelyan

#conviction #hatreds #inevitable #national #nourish

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#banish #domestic #general #independence #kind

From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#eyes #fire #nourishment #sustenance #women

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. ↗

— Frank A. Clark

#destroying #enough #gentle #growth #his

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#another #back #day #finished #go

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ↗

— William Penn

#body #mind #nourishment #refreshment #rest