Andrew Ross:
CLASS OF 1974
Southfield-Lathrup High SchoolClass of 1974
Lathrup village, MI
Andrew's Story
Andrew is from Detroit, Michigan. Andrew's schools include Southfield-Lathrup High School.
Music Andrew likes includes Tributosaurus, Tom Watts - Music, Terrapin Flyer. Books Andrew likes include Jewish Ethics & Social Justice, Crime and Punishment, Just One Thing. Movies Andrew likes include Disney Pixar, The Incredibles, DETROPIA. TV shows Andrew likes include The Colbert Report, PBS, Green Acres.
One of Andrew's favorite quotes is:""Life must be understood backwards...but must be lived forwards"
-Soren Kierkegaard
"All religion, even the most loving kind, is just a speed bump in the progress of the human race.â ~Jerry DeWitt.
Be Yourself. Everyone else is taken.
~Oscar Wilde
I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.
~Wallace Stevens, "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
"The last thing that happens to you before you go crazy, is that everything becomes clear." ~ Harry Stack Sullivan
Until you dig a hole, plant a tree, water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.
- Wangari Maathai (1940- 2011)
"The reason parents can push your buttons is because they installed them." -Roseanne Barr
âMost men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.â - Thoreau
"Looks like what drives me crazy
Has no effect on you--
But I'm gonna keep on at it
Till it drives you crazy, too."
â Langston Hughes
âif a person finds himself or herself in a situation for no reason, he or she will go to quite extraordinary lengths to create a reason.â Jay Cody
"The moment you can visualize being free from the things that hold you back, you have indeed be...Expand for more
gun to set yourself free."--- Unknown
"We are constantly invited to be who we are."
Henry David Thoreau
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"
"You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone."- Miller Williams
âThe struggle of maturity is to recover the seriousness of the child at play.â-- Nietzsche
"Man is born broken. He lives by mending."-- Eugene O'Neill
"I don't believe in God, but I miss him."-- Julian Barnes
" A mentsch is a person who confronts, clarifies, and overcomes what frustrates him, internally and externally, and then acts morally, ethically, and with compassion, to do what the situation calls for; in essence a person who rises to the occasion on difficult occasions to do 'the right thing'".
"Have patience with everything unresolved and try to love the questions themselves" --Rilke
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." -- Sinclair Lewis
"Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day."- Bertrand Russell
"My scrambled eggs in the morning are me by the end of the day."- Jonathan Miller
"People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong... So we change." - Ira Glass
Flowers, while cherished, fade, and weeds, while despised, flourish.
"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."
~ William James.".
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