"Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer."

-- Bernard Baruch

#Land Quotes #Cities Quotes #Roots Quotes

“I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Idolatry, then, is always polytheism, an aimless passing from one lord to another. Idolatry does not offer a journey but rather a plethora of paths leading nowhere and forming a vast labyrinth.”
“Secularism for the Congress is merely a slogan while for the BJP it is an article of faith. Secularism is about votebank politics for the Congress, while it is about 'India first' for the BJP.”
“As we walked, I began to wonder what the opposite of molting was and why, unlike the body, which sheds everything, the soul cannot let go but compiles and accumulates, growing annual rings around the things it wants and dreams and remembers”

Source : André Aciman (2011). “False Papers”, p.61, Macmillan
“Sometimes you got to get sick before you can feel better.”
“Once you are ready to truly devote your days and times to what your soul came here to do, you will find your life unimaginably enriched.”

Source : FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Sep 11, 2016
“Fullness of knowledge always and necessarily means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance, and that is always conducive to both humility and reverence.”
“Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.”

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