"The world is not given by our fathers, but borrowed from our children."

-- Wendell Berry

#Children Quotes #Father Quotes #World Quotes

“Since I've been hired to contribute to the storyline of 'Doom 4' I can say what was always true anyway. I'm working. You see, for a writer, lots of stuff that doesn't look like working is actually working. Looking out of the window, for example. Balancing a pencil on the edge of the desk in order to find its exact fulcrum. Playing 'Doom.”
“Learn to use the criticism as fuel and you will never run out of energy.”
“Chronic disease is a foodborne illness. We ate our way into this mess, and we must eat our way out.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mark Hyman, MD from Jun 01, 2012
“Why do I want to run from happiness?”
“A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000 tides had come and gone and little remains visible of the greatest military landing in man's history of endless warring. What's to be seen is mostly in a superb museum and a panoramic cemetery. The cemetery memorializes with dignity and grandeur the event and the dead, and moves one deeply. Before they die less precipitously and/or in lesser purpose, Americans who can should visit World War II's Normandy Beach. Such seeing and remembering helps a man's perspective.”
“I believe in a higher power. I believe in inspiration.”
“You can never win as a sight-seer. Somebody else, more often than not the first person you meet when you get back home, has been there before you.”
“People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.”

Source : Nadine Gordimer (2005). “Get a Life”

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