"It is more than twenty years since we left the city. This is a serious chunk of time, longer than the years we spent living there. Yet we still think of Jerusalem as our home. Not home in the sense of the place that you conduct your daily life or constantly return to. In fact, Jerusalem is our home almost against our wills. It is our home because it defines us, whether we like it or not."

-- Yotam Ottolenghi

#Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes

“Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.”
“Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.”
“To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.”
“Rich, 'the Old Man said dreamily, 'is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got.”
“In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest.”

Source : BETTY MACDONALD (1945). “THE EGG AND I”
“It's OK to be wrong; it's unforgivable to stay wrong.”
“Evil alone has oil for every wheel.”
“A few days back someone sent me two feathers. Two bird's feathers in a sheet of note-paper with a coronet, and fastened with a seal. Sent from a place a long way off; from one who need not have sent them back at all. That amused me too, those devilish green feathers.”

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