quotes about Haymitch Abernathy

“The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree I passed the farms that made it Through the last days of the century And I knew that I was going to learn again Again, in this less hazy light I saw the fields beyond the fields The fields beyond the field”

“There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser.”

Source : The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.

“I am more scared now that I was at any point since I began trading, because I recognize how ephemeral success can be in this business. I know that to be successful, I have to be frightened. My biggest hits have always come after I have had a great period and I started to think that I knew something.”

“Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.”

Source : "Terrence Malick Punched Out A Producer & 10 Other Things We Learned About ‘Badlands’" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. June 3, 2011.

“The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.”

“Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.”

“I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.”

“Our culture has become something that is completely and utterly in love with its parent. It's become a notion of boredom that is bought and sold, where nothing will happen except that people will become more and more terrified of tomorrow, because the new continues to look old, and the old will always look cute.”

“Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.”

“I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.”