"I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

#Tree Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Valleys Quotes

“Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.”
“There's a limit of any form of representation; it's the same about writing about visual art. I still think it's useful for people to think through things in a deeper way, and use adjectives even if they're not sufficient, you know? I always find it interesting what terms they use to refer to the work. It's always different, and that's kind of intriguing. Sometimes it's clichÃ©s, but often it's really creative ways of paraphrasing or reformatting what to mean seems something else. I like that, personally.”
“I have to drink wine before I go on stage. That is still part of the ritual, the ceremony. I usually go for a Cabernet or a Merlot. You're at the mercy of promoters who try to cut corners, so you don't always get the best wines in the world. But I look at the wine as being medicinal. It's not there to be enjoyed, it's part of my preparation for a show.”
“Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief.”
“Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field.”
“Religion is love; in no case is it logic.”

Source : My Apprenticeship ch. 2 (1926)
“I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I.”
“There is nothing so strong as the force of love; there is no love so forcible as the love of an affectionate mother to her natural child.”

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