"When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling the elegant orgies at the court of Louis XV, will recite the glories of Portmarnock and Merion, of the Road Hole at St. Andrews, the sixth at Seminole, the eighteenth at Pebble Beach. They will take out this volume from its secret hiding place and they will say: "There is no question, son, that these were unholy places in an evil age. Unfortunately, I had a whale of a time.""

-- Alistair Cooke

#Beach Quotes #Son Quotes #Golf Quotes

“Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms.”

Source : Rudolf Karl Bultmann, Schubert Miles Ogden (1985). “New Testament and mythology and other basic writings”
“I think sometimes the media eggs on a lot of things and makes it worse. That's what puts a lot of things in people's heads.”

Source : "Q&A: 'Snoop' from 'The Wire' makes the jump to 'Chi-Raq'". newsok.com. November 17, 2015.
“We can't achieve excellence through talent alone. Or merely by making technological improvements. We can't even buy our way to excellence, no matter how much money we have available to spend. More dollars will never do it. We have to develop a strong corporate conscience. Ethical muscle. And that doesn't happen by accident either.”
“If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.”
“In times of tragedies, our duty is to lend a helping hand to those in grief and thus light lamps of kindness and compassion.”
“It's easy to make money. You put up the sign Bank and someone walks in and hands you his money. The faÃ§ade is everything.”
“Fast, worship, and seek Him.”
“Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.”

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