"Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it meets the mane ofthe grass; the diluted reflection of the sky together with the fleeting sight of the reeds; the Negresses fill their dripping gourds and their red clay containers; the song of the washerwomen; the gorged fields the tall crops ripening."

-- Jacques Roumain

#Song Quotes #Nature Quotes #Garden Quotes

“When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded.”
“Only in a true life or death scenario can you have mental clearness to know that you cannot feel guilty for surviving.”

Source : "George Zimmerman accuses Obama of inflaming racial tensions" by Jethro Mullen, www.cnn.com. March 24, 2015.
“To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can talk all we want about sustainability, but there's a sense in which it doesn't matter that these people's dreams are based on, embedded in, intertwined with, and formed by an inherently destructive economic and social system. Their dreams are still their dreams. What right do I -- or does anyone else -- have to destroy them. At the same time, what right do they have to destroy the world?”
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.”
“We fear only what we havenâ€™t understood.”
“Exchange ideas frequently.”
“Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.”

Source : "Casuals of the Sea : The Voyage of a Soul" by William McFee, Book II: The City, Ch. VI, 1916.
“Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.”

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