"The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men."

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Berthold Auerbach

#Men Quotes #Age Quotes #Silver Quotes

“More than anything, for me, is how people really still do care about you.”

Source : Source: screenanarchy.com
“My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.”
“Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.”
“I've loved acting and dancing since I was a kid. Before anyone thought I was pretty or before I had a voluptuous figure, that was what I was going to do.”
“Depth, in a pictorial, plastic sense, is not created by the arrangement of objects one after another toward a vanishing point, in the sense of the Renaissance perspective, but on the contrary (and in absolute denial of this doctrine) by the creation of forces in the sense of push and pull . Nor is depth created by tonal gradation (another doctrine of the academician which, at its culmination, degraded the use of color to a mere function of expressing dark and light).”
“A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.”

Source : GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”
“Spiritual methods are essential in Africa if you are going to survive politically. My cousin is the chief security officer for the president of Burkina Faso. He knows the key medicine man who works day and night to keep the president in power. These medicine men don't have offices downtown; they live in huts in remote areas, but that is where the real political power resides. A medicine man has no clue about the actual workings of domestic or international politics. All he knows is that a person has a seat of importance somewhere, and his job is to keep that person on that seat.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Imitate the sun. Don't worry if people understand you. Just shine shine shine.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 16, 2014

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