"In the garden I will die. In the rosebush they will kill me."

-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Death Quotes #Garden Quotes #Dying Quotes

“That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them.”

Source : Alfred Sutro (1906). “The Price of Money: A Play in Four Acts”
“I can never satisfy myself until I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model, I can understand it. As long as I cannot make a mechanical model all the way through I cannot understand.”
“I know a lot of people have very strong and definite plans that they've worked out on all kinds of things, but we're subject to a tremendous number of outside influences and the vast majority of them cannot be predicted. So my idea is to stay flexible. My only plan is to keep coming to work every day. I like to steer the boat each day rather than plan ahead way into the future.”
“I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and shadows play upon the banking, wheeling wings, I am completely, vibrantly alive. With the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, and the rudder beneath my feet, I can savor that essence from which life is made.”
“I'm highly emotional, so I'm highly aware of humiliation.”
“When you kneel in prayer, don't give God orders, just report to your Commander in Chief for duty.”
“Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!”

Source : David Mitchell (2008). “Black Swan Green”, p.153, Hachette UK
“Work hard, trust in God, and keep your bowels open.”

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