"I like to be who I am."

--

Hal Holbrook

#Who I Am Quotes

“Wish not so much to live long as to live well.”
“Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically, at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what is now modern-day Iraq.”
“Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, itâ€™s impossible.”
“The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.”
“You will find it easiest to ride the avalanche in the direction it already travels.”
“There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on with the high defiance of nature herself, creating, in the very face of her chaos and tornado, the bower of roses and the pride of irises. It sounds very well to garden a 'natural way'. You may see the natural way in any desert, any swamp, any leech-filled laurel hell. Defiance, on the other hand, is what makes gardeners.”

Source : Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.3, Indiana University Press
“People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.”
“I became more curious about the story behind the story [in the House of Cards]. So what was really going on behind the headline? And it's a little bit sad that that show, it doesn't seem so much like entertainment the way it did back when we started doing it.”

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