"In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life."

-- Lucretius

#Space Quotes #Grandparent Quotes #Torches Quotes

“With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.”
“Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting.”
“I feel certain that words can be as human as people, alive with the breath of compassion.”

Source : Margarita Engle (2013). “The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don't think we live philosophy anymore. It's done.”
“A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held.”
“Jesus, Willard says, â€œdoes not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes the natural expression of who we are in him.”
“Anyone would think a thin stick like me, weak and miserable would go down with everything: do you think I get more than my cough every winter? I bet I live till ninety, with all my aches and pains. To think that's fifty more years of the Great-I-Am.”
“Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.”

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