"Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity."

-- Thomas Jefferson

#Tree Quotes #Serving Others Quotes #Plant Quotes

“There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.”

Source : Iran-Contra Hearings Closing Statement, www.danielkinouyeinstitute.org. August 03, 1987.
“I was good and bad, but never wicked.”
“I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through.”
“Everything balled up into one: Beat Mexico and qualify. There's no better scenario.”
“Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.”
“But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'.”
“They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.”
“When I'm feeling proud of myself, I should remember to ask myself why I think I am of any value at all. I have done nothing that a hundred thousand other people couldn't do, and most of them would probably do it better, and they probably wouldn't feel so self-important about it. I should always be ashamed of myself.”

Source : "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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