"This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way."

-- John Knowles

#Peace Quotes #Men Quotes #Years Quotes

“When you say you're a padre, people ask when did you become a parent. When you say you're a cardinal, they tell you to work hard because the next step is pope. But when you say you're a Dodger, everybody knows you're in the Major Leagues.”
“Try to keep them, poet, those erotic visions of yours, however few of them there are that can be stilled. Put them, half-hidden, in your lines.”

Source : Constantine P. Cavafy, “When They Come Alive”
“On Valentine's Day, I wired flowers for my mother-in-law, but she found the fuse.”
“The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue.”
“There's positive attention and there's negative attention - negative attention is easy, positive attention requires actual hard work.”
“Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.”
“Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.”
“Democracy is not a commodity for import and export.”

Source : Interview with Samina Ibrahim, newslinemagazine.com. May 2003.

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