"Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

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Source : Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “The Poet at the Breakfast Table”, p.33, Reprint Services Corporation

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“One theme of what I've been writing has been to get people to understand that "apolitical" means "you lose." It doesn't mean you live a utopian life free of politicians' influence. The destruction of the public domain is the clearest example, but it will only be the first.”
“I had to figure out myself to figure out my game.”
“What are you doing here? Tell me why you are here. If you are not here to win a national championship, you're in the wrong place. You boys are special. I don't want my players to be like other students. I want special people. You can learn a lot on the football field that isn't taught in the home, the church, or the classroom. There are going to be days when you think you've got no more to give and then you're going to give plenty more. You are going to have pride and class. You are going to be very special. You are going to win the national championship for Alabama.”
“Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.”
“Every athlete has training they enjoy and training that they do because they have to and they don't enjoy so much. Do the training you love, remind yourself why you do it and hopefully it'll all come good for you.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“All that may be wished for, will by nature fade to nothing.”
“I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve!”
“It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.”

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