"To me, it's normal. We summered in Vermont, and me and my sister Ilyasah went to one of the top ten schools in the country [the Hackley School]."

-- Malaak Shabazz

#Country Quotes #School Quotes #Vermont Quotes

“At the same time, it makes me feel like I have to prove myself to the new guys coming in as well as prove myself to the coaching staff, which is a good bit of motivation for me.”
“It's great to hear someone really care for the soprano saxophone.”
“I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.”
“I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.”
“Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.”
“To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.”
“Talk of the imperial decay of your invalid port. Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as it hovers between oblivion and the divine Untergang of infinite recession.”

Source : "One-Upmanship". Book by Stephen Potter, p. 143, 1952.
“Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it.”

Source : Ivan Goncharov (2015). “Oblomov”, p.102, Sheba Blake Publishing

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