#Wheat Quotes #Aging Quotes
“The golfer has more enemies than any other athlete. He has fourteen clubs in his bag, all of them different; 18 holoes to play, all of them different, every week; and all around him is sand, trees, grass, water, wind and 143 other players. In addition, the game is 50 percent mental, so his biggest enemy is himself.”
“I want to win, so sometimes I get a little overanxious.”
“Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the last few decades we have created a food production bubble-one based on environmental trends that cannot be sustained, including overpumping aquifers, overplowing land, and overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide.”
“Being vegan provides us with the peace of knowing that we are no longer participants in the hideous violence that is animal exploitation.”
“Instead of just asking 'How did I do?' ask 'How can I do more?'”
“It's a weird curse, when you think about it. We're built for thought, and civilization, more than any other creature we've found. And all we really want to be is killers.”
Source : Josh Bazell (2009). “Beat The Reaper”, p.29, Random House
“While anger and hate are two things some people can cope with, I cannot. My anger and hate grow to a level that I cannot live comfortably with it.”
“you've got to wish for something the whole time when you're seventeen. You've got to, or there's nothing to live for. However impossible you've got to think you want it. ... When I couldn't think of a thing I wanted I nearly died.”
Billy Collins Poet
Etheridge Knight Poet
Langston Hughes Poet
Maya Angelou Author
Nikki Giovanni Writer
Rita Dove Poet
Robert Frost Poet
Robert Hayden Poet
Yusef Komunyakaa Poet
