"To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told -- that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks."

-- Beryl Markham

#Nature Quotes #Animal Quotes #Mountain Quotes

“All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled by workers' and soldiers' councils. Adolf Hitler, recuperating in a military hospital, reacted violently to this news. "It became impossible for me to sit still one minute more," he wrote in Mein Kampf.”
“Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.”

Source : Harry Crews (1979). “Blood and Grits”, HarperCollins Publishers
“The Bagshaws? They didn't know she was a nun!”
“Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.”

Source : Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1860). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases”, p.305
“Itâ€™s brown.â€ So maybe I had the teeniest, tiniest, most infinitesimal amount of auburn in my hair. I was still a brunette. â€œItâ€™s the lighting,â€ I said. â€œYeah, maybe itâ€™s the lightbulbs.â€ His smile brought up both sides of his mouth, and a dimple surfaced.”
“Every father who ever lived has a dream for his son.”
“If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength”
“The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon with suspicion - unless he happens to be an American, when his ignorance of good manners is indulged.”

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