"The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you."

-- Ernest K. Gann

#Emergencies Quotes #Train Quotes

“Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God's care and pity for every separate need.”
“The phone's not ringing off the hook, but that's ok by me. I feel very fortunate, work to me has become a kind of hobby.”
“The nut of this tree is hung high aloft, wrapped in a silk wrapper, which is enclosed in a case of sole leather, which again is packed in a mass of shock absorbing, vermin proof pulp, sealed up in a waterproof, ironwood case, and finally cased in a vegetable porcupine of spines, almost impregnable. There is no nut so protected; there is no nut in our woods to compare with it as food. What is a Chesnut?”
“I hate to cry and I hate to sound like sour grapes, but no one ever listens to me. No one ever hears what I have to say.”
“For us to get to those huts and no one's home, it's going to be a kick to the nuts.”
“I actually do my own renovations. I designed and built a 100-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose my property. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Don't recommend doing it alone. I also built a 100-square-foot back porch. Again, don't recommend doing it alone.”
“Successful people do not have a part-time mindset nor a full-time mindset, but a lifetime mindset.”
“I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness ...”

Source : Paule Marshall (1983). “Reena and Other Stories”, p.90, Feminist Press at CUNY

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