"Grandma said [...] when you come on something that is good, first thing to do is share it with whoever you can find; that way, the good spreads out to where no telling it will go."

-- Forrest Carter

#Grandma Quotes #Way Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them.”
“Letting Go: A Little Bit at a Time is filled with big ideas that just might change your life. Wise, witty, and important.”
“I don't talk about my personal life with the press.”
“the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.”
“The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.”
“Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.”
“What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was a theoretical myth. The war, the internal measures against counterrevolution, and the famine (which had created a bureaucratic rationing apparatus) had killed off Soviet democracy. How could it revive, and when? The Party lived in the certain knowledge that the slightest relaxation of its authority would give day to reaction.”

Source : Victor Serge (2002). “Memoirs of a Revolutionary”, p.133, University of Iowa Press
“I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.”

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