"History tells me that when the Russians come to a country they don't go back."

-- Mohammed Daoud Khan

#Country Quotes

“My Wings are a thousand books.”
“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.”
“I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.”
“A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library.”

Source : "Murphy, Parkinson, and Peter: Laws for librarians" by Jean E. Crampon, Library Journal 113. no. 17 (p. 41), October 15, 1988.
“I have candy all the time. I live on gummy bears and peach rings. They're like dried-up peaches, only dipped in sugar. You can get 'em at gas stations. They're like 99 cents for four bags. And cashews. I love cashews.”
“Honesty, by evil fortune tried, Finds in adversity the seed of praise.”
“We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to public policy and psychology and classical music are so extremely abstract and technically complex and context-dependent that it's next to impossible for the ordinary citizen to feel that they (the developments) have much relevance to her actual life.”
“Mistreating your drum set is just one step below child abuse”

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