hawthorne Quotes
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“I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.”
- Mayer Hawthorne
“My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot, from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' - Little Mac is the main character. I was obsessed. I can still beat Mike Tyson on 'Punch Out.'”
- Mayer Hawthorne
“The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
“My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.”
- Mayer Hawthorne
“Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
“All brave men love for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
“I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?”
- Mayer Hawthorne