"If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it."

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Source : James Carlos Blake (2009). “Red Grass River: A Legend”, p.1, Harper Collins

James Carlos Blake

#Garden Quotes #Devil Quotes #Raised Quotes

“Slaves do what others want. Servants do what others need.”

Source : James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.65, Crown Business
“Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.”
“I've been waiting a long to to meet you”
“I want Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D played at my funeral. If it isn't I shall jolly well want to know why.”
“People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.”

Source : "What Are You Going to Do With That?". www.chronicle.com. October 3, 2010.
“Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.”
“Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much to learn, but much also to unlearn.”

Source : Sir John Frederick William Herschel (1869). “Outlines of Astronomy”, p.17
“Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.”

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