Lance Morrow Quotes (14 Quotes)

Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram.

He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads the country's old work ethic is dead.

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.

Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

Had he lived, what a different world it could have been, his loyalists say. But it's also possible his dark side could have overtaken him, ... It might have been a terrible mess if all the stories had come out, catastrophic.

One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.

His campaign sounded a note of the bogusly grand. Hart is Kennedy typed on the eighth carbon.

Music is the way our memories sing to us across time.

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.