"High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and once every thousand years a little bird comes to this mountain to sharpen its beak. When the mountain has thus been worn away a single day of eternity will have passed"

-- Hendrik Willem van Loon

#Years Quotes #Land Quotes #Long Quotes

“Entrepreneurs, because they need money, they are willing to share their crystal ball with someone like me. That's the best thing ever.”
“If the soup had been as warm as the wine; if the wine had been as old as the turkey; and if the turkey had had a breast like the maid, it would have been a swell dinner.”
“Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.”

Source : "Don't go nuts, Bolt: Daley Thompson says sprint ace must get head in order" by Alex Spink, www.mirror.co.uk. July 14, 2012.
“This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted”
“You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying.”
“The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
“So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues.”
“The language is spare and under control and has a genuine immediacy...The poems never preach but are lined out with a cool and therefore devastating effect”

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