"Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say."

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Phil Cousineau

#Grandfather Quotes #Stones Quotes #Path Quotes

“Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.”
“Let me guess,' Ian said in a voice like ice. 'You fell on a rock.”
“We (the DOE) are poisoning our people in the name of national security.”
“The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.”
“In a way, being raised on the farm and doing chores and stuff it's a natural thing for me to want to work outside. It's almost kind of like a rehabilitation for me with doing that.”
“Most of the hotel gym's are not adequate. I mean you might be able to train your arms, but you aren't going to be able to train legs, back, or even chest if they don't have dumbbells and benches.”
“I meet people who use the term "plant spirit" as a matter of course. Initially I thought they were all rather woo-woo, but as I met more brilliant, accomplished plant spirit thought leaders, my thoughts started to shift to, "What am I missing here?"”
“To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off.”

Source : Murray Kempton (1972). “America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962”

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