"When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for wrapping meat. In a small village in Germany a father brought home a limp goose wrapped in paper that was covered with strange and beautiful symbols."

-- Simon Van Booy

#Beautiful Quotes #Children Quotes #Father Quotes

“Cats don't belong to people. They belong to places.”

Source : Wright Morris (1989). “Collected stories, 1948-1986”, David R. Godine Publisher
“I'm not good at math. Numbers are a terrifying thing to me. My father is a whiz with money and the stock market, and he tries to explain it to me, and I find it terrifying.”
“History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.”
“...to be injured on this tundra would lead to a quick and painful deathâ€”or at the very least abject humiliation before the popping flashes of the tourist season's tail end, which was slightly less painful than a painful death, but lasted longer.”
“They [investment bankers] don't even want the stuff that they've got, you know the fancy cars and houses. Their consumption is basically just a keeping up with the Joneses or let's buy the markers of success because this is what I'm supposed to have and this is what I'm supposed to do. And they are working so hard that they don't even have the time to think about what they might actually desire.”
“Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who is able to recount the sources and issues thereof?”
“I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox-”
“The forest is not a resource for us, it is life itself. It is the only place for us to live.”

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