"Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have kindled, and all their echoes are the echoes of our own voices."

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Source : Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.122

Alexander Smith

#Memories Quotes #Fire Quotes #Echoes Quotes

“Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.”

Source : Message to Git Mailing List, lwn.net. July 27, 2006.
“They're living proof that the 3 stooges had children.”
“A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.”
“After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.”
“Being a celebrity, you can remain a child for ever, almost. You get away with more; you can get too pampered and it's not healthy.”
“How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree. Whose short and narrow verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all flow'rs and all trees do close To weave the garlands of repose.”

Source : 'The Garden' (1681) st. 1
“Politics is the womb in which war develops.”
“You look tired," Rachel told Jason. "I wish I could jog and sleep at the same time." "Can't you?" Ferrin asked, joining them at the little cascade. "I always imagined that you could sleep rolling down a mountainside in a barrel." "I probably could today," Jason conceded.”

Source : Brandon Mull (2013). “Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy”, p.685, Simon and Schuster

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