"Early youth is a baffling time"

-- Bruce Catton

“That was another incredible thing: the opportunity to be in Greenland, a place I had read about in NatGeo a decade before. Suddenly I was staying there and hiking there, and we took a mini iceberg out of the water and chipped it up and used it as ice cubes and made cocktails with it. It's surreal.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.”
“Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape.”
“I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.”
“But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.”
“Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.”

Source : Sarah J. Maas (2013). “Crown of Midnight”, p.125, A&C Black
“If you ain't trying to cheat a little, you ain't likely to win much.”
“There, in the depths of sleep, is the communion of the living and the dead.”

You may also like:

Abraham Lincoln
16th U.S. President
Allan Nevins
Historian
Bennett Cerf
Publisher
David Herbert Donald
Historian
David W. Blight
Professor
Henry Steele Commager
Historian
Shelby Foote
Historian
Ulysses S. Grant
18th U.S. President
Douglas Southall Freeman
Historian