"The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty."

-- Nicholas Murray Butler

#Tombstone Quotes #People Quotes #30th Birthday Quotes

“Life is but a series of memories you make.”
“Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?”

Source : Edward Bellamy (2016). “Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature”, p.110, VM eBooks
“In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.”
“Science is about filling in the details.”
“I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.”

Source : "The Lance and the Shield" by Robert M. Utley, New York: Henry Holt and Co., (p. 73), 1993.
“Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.”
“I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house.”

Source : Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.109, A&C Black
“Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.”

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