"We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime."

-- George Washington

#Children Quotes #Perfection Quotes #Evening Quotes

“Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.”
“If you learn something that changes you, you've made progress. If you learn something that changes others, you've helped change the world.”
“Vic nudged my elbow with his. "You and me are still friends, right? You guys get a joint custody in the divorce. Generous visitations rights." "Divorce?" Despite myself, I laughed. Only Vic could call the aftermath of a bad first date a divorce. We hadn't exactly been friends beforehand, so "still" was an exaggeration, but it would've been mean to point that out. Besides, I liked Vic. "We're still friends." "Excellent. The weirdos have to stick together around here." "Are you calling me a weirdo?" "Highest honor I can bestow.”
“It is what we see when we imagine what the afterlife must be like: our happiest triumphs, our most sincere moments, stolen from the seam of our lives, a respite just before the onset of imminent tragedy.”

Source : Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.285, Akashic Books
“The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.”
“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.”
“Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine.”
“No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief”

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