"Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms."

-- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#Beautiful Quotes #Military Quotes #Holiday Quotes

“Self-discovery in songwriting, bringing something forth that's instructive to yourself - some of the best songs that you will ever write are the ones where you didn't have to think about any of that stuff, but nonetheless that's what's happening in the song.”
“You should go to work every day a little bit nervous.”
“Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!”

Source : Charles Stross (2006). “The Atrocity Archives”, p.32, Penguin
“Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love.”
“It's not only moving that creates new starting points. Sometimes all it takes is a subtle shift in perspective, an opening of the mind, an intentional pause and reset, or a new route to start to see new options and new possibilities.”
“I'm realizing, you don't need to change anything about yourself. This is who you are, and it's okay. That's daring.”

Source : "2014 Women Who Dare: Uzo Aduba". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 12, 2014.
“Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.”
“Praise consists in the love of God, in wonder at the goodness of God, in recognition of the gifts of God, in seeing God in all things He gives us, ay, and even in the things that He refuses to us; so as to see our whole life in the light of God; and seeing this, to bless Him, adore Him, and glorify Him.”

Source : Henry Edward Manning (1874). “Sin and Its Consequences”, p.256

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