"Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown"

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Source : Chaim Potok (1984). “My Name is Asher Lev”, Fawcett

Chaim Potok

#Fruit Quotes #Bears Quotes

“I'm a hip-hop head, I grew up with it. So I've always loved the music.”
“Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.”
“Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner.”
“Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.”
“It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.”
“In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them...it seems plain to us that many things are wrong in the present ones that can be, must be, changed. Our texture of belief has great holes in it. Our pattern lacks pieces.”
“My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy.”
“Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”

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