#trapped

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work. ↗

— Anna Freud

#examined #future #live #our #past

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#feel #future #own #ownership #people

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#american history #been #color #contributions #history

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail. ↗

— Greil Marcus

#make #new #old #oldest #stories

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent. ↗

— Barry McCaffrey

#continent #crime #culturally #economically #mexico

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#get #giving #idea #image #important

As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet. ↗

— John Olver

#antarctica #attention #became #carbon #carbon dioxide

There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#bodies #climbers #counter #inside #lot

I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock. ↗

— Rick Derringer

#doing #i #into #kind #my own

Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all. ↗

— Akshay Kumar

#affects #both #both sides #emotions #how