"Set the basketball on the kitchen table. Open a cupboard, get out a bottle of sesame seeds, and place a single seed beside the basketball. If you were to reduce the Earth to the size of a basketball, all the fresh surface water on the planet - all those rivers and lakes and ponds and streams - would fit inside that one tiny sesame seed. Add a second sesame seed; now you have all the usable underground water as well. Is fresh water a scarce resource?"

-- William Ashworth

#Basketball Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Lakes Quotes

“I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.”
“Actors are con men and con men are actors.”

Source : FaceBook post by Edward Burns from May 01, 2012
“Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.”
“On sorrow floats laughter.”

Source : "Dog Years". Book by Gunter Grass, www.theguardian.com. 1963.
“When you're teaching a hard concept and the students all have puzzled looks on their faces and then suddenly you can see that 'aha' moment, that they got it, that's just an incredible thing.”
“The culture that's going to survive in the future is the culture that you can carry around in your head.”
“Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.”
“Reaper of enemies; strong of grip; One kind with his fathers.”

Source : Taliesin, “Elegy For Owain”

You may also like: