"Each year the big garden grew smaller and Jane - who grew flowers by choice, not corn or stringbeans - worked at the vegetables more than I did. Each winter I dreamed crops, dreamed marvels of canning . . . and each summer I largely failed. Shamefaced, I planted no garden at all."

-- Donald Hall

#Summer Quotes #Failure Quotes #Flower Quotes

“There were around 1,000 stores when I was made president.”
“An enemy will train us in watchfulness; for if he be wary to seize on every error and trip us, we shall be more heedful to expose nothing, and this will drive us to prudence and thoughtfulness.”
“There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not.”
“What is with waiters who don't write anything down and memorize your order instead? Are you trying to impress me or something? If you were that smart you wouldn't be a ***** waiter in the first place.”
“A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.”

Source : "The Gathas". Book by Zoroaster. Translation by Dinshaw Jamshedji Irani, in K. D. Irani, Rabindranath Tagore, p.96, Yasna 43, 15, www.zarathushtra.com. 1999.
“I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.”
“It's a tough world out there and all the guys are fighting hard and the competition is really tough.”
“Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory.”

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