"He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the war was over; whereas there must be men to stay behind and keep gardening alive, or at least the idea of gardening; because once that cord was broken, the earth would grow hard and forget her children. That was why."

-- J. M. Coetzee

#Children Quotes #War Quotes #Men Quotes

“To become a lapsed Catholic, first go to a Catholic university.”
“If we live the faith in our daily life, then our work too becomes a chance to spread the joy of being a Christian.”
“I used to play a lot of chess and competitive chess and study chess and as you get to the grandmasters and learn their styles when you start copying their games like the way they express themselves through... The way Kasparov or Bobby Fischer expresses themselves through a game of chess is it's astonishing. You can show a chess master one of their games and they'll say "Yeah, that is done by that player."”
“None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. The chance of his being wiser than all his neighbours together is still smaller.”
“Sometimes it's good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more.”
“This outbreak is moving ahead of efforts to control it.”
“Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.”
“If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever.”

Source : "William McDonough: Godfather of Green". WNYC Studio 360, March 18, 2008.

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