“It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.”– Taylor Caldwell Related Quotes “As long as we do violence to other animals, we’ll keep on doing violence to ourselves.”— Paul Russell “A ‘dreamer’ is one possesses the gift of dreaming by day. Sure, many dream at night, but don’t also small babies and animals dream at night? To dream by day and dream aloud: Is this not the reward for all the troubles we humans must face?”— Roman Payne “The ground was scorched, the streets teemed with refugees, and these Americans were playing at fleeing! As if they had something to resent, to despise, to scorn, to run away from! As if they weren’t the lords of the earth.”— Cynthia Ozick