"Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick."

-- Muhammad Ali

#Climbing Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Stones Quotes

“When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak, We shall live well--we shall live very well.”

Source : Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.18, Kent State University Press
“I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.”
“If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.”
“If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.”
“Apostles receive revelations from God, and consequently they are able to say 'This is what the Spirit is saying to the churches right now.' Making such a statement with credibility carries with it tremendous authority.”
“President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's.”

Source : "Portman Gives GOP Weekly Address: "We're Going Broke" Under Obama". www.realclearpolitics.com. July 14, 2012.
“A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop... it would diversify its crops to suit the earth”

Source : Verlyn Klinkenborg (2013). “More Scenes from the Rural Life”, p.109, Princeton Architectural Press
“The rest-the vast majority, tens of thousands of days-are unremarkable, repetitive, even monotonous. We glide through them then instantly forget them. We tend not to think about this arithmetic when we look back on our lives. We remember the handful of Big Days and throw away the rest. We organize our long, shapeless lives into tidy little stories...But our lives are mostly made up of junk, of ordinary, forgettable days, and 'The End' is never the end.”

Source : William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.381, Delacorte Press

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