"The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring."

-- Georg C. Lichtenberg

#Spring Quotes #Clockwork Quotes

“The two black lines on the armband means that they're the deceased's family. One line means they are either friends or acquaintances. One line of the arm, one line on the heart. The bastards who stood by my side with two lines, they'll be the hardest farewells I'll have to make in my life, and they're the luckiest fortune I've met in my lifetime.”
“Teens are always shown as one dimensional. They're stereotyped. When I was in high school, I cared about more than getting a date or making the team.”
“Too many times we pray for ease, but that's a prayer seldom met. What we need to do is pray for roots that reach deep into the Eternal, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won't be swept asunder.”

Source : Philip Gulley (2009). “Front Porch Tales: Warm Hearted Stories of Family, Faith, Laughter and Love”, p.19, Harper Collins
“I didnâ€™t know what was more disturbingâ€”the fact that something was obviously wrong, or that three faculty members of the worldâ€™s premiere spy school had forgotten to lock the door.”
“What a world! Whether you're right or wrong, as long as you're strong, you're right.”

Source : Piri Thomas (1974). “Down These Mean Streets”, Vintage
“Itâ€™s all about loving what you got and rocking it.”
“We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high or higher than we are. . . .”
“While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances.”

Source : Harmelin v. Michigan 501 U.S. 957 at 1023, 1991.

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