"My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!"

-- Robert Burns

#Country Quotes #Sweet Quotes #Son Quotes

“Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.”
“If heartaches and tears and shadows of doubt are part of the deal you can count me out but if your talking about a game I can win You can count me in”

Source : Song: Count Me In, Album: Did I Shave My Legs For This?, 1996
“The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.”
“We always look at the margin of safety in the balance sheet and then worry about the business.”
“The wars of kings were over; the wars of peoples had begun.”
“There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.”

Source : "The Struggle for Russia". Book by Boris Yeltsin, 1994.
“I'm not an educated man, but I've read some history. Every kingdom comes up bloody. Every castle is built on a pile of bones. When I came out here, LA was nothing. Back east I was a gangster, out here I'm god.”
“Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the plant a desired shape,”

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