"It takes twenty years to become an overnight success."

-- Eddie Cantor

#Success Quotes #Years Quotes #Twenties Quotes

“The elimination of the barbaric terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is good news for the world.”
“As a people, our most cherished and valuable achievements are the achievements of spirit. With an Afrocentric spirit, all things can be made to happen; it is the source of genuine revolutionary commitment.”
“I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer.... People's general awareness is getting much better, even down to buying a pint of milk: the fact that the calves are actually killed so that the milk doesn't go to them but to us cannot really be right, and if you have seen a cow in a state of extreme distress because it cannot understand why its calf isn't by, it can make you think a lot.”
“The body is like the earth ... as vulnerable to overbuilding, being carved into parcels, cut off, overmined, and shorn of its power as any landscape.”
“The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.”
“Israel's doors are open to collaboration with Bulgaria.”
“Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.”

Source : Simon Raven (1962). “The Decline of the Gentleman”
“My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring.”

Source : Doris Grumbach (2014). “Coming into the End Zone: A Memoir”, p.46, Open Road Media

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