"Yesterday the twig was brown and bare; To-day the glint of green is there; Tomorrow will be leaflets spare; I know no thing so wondrous fair, No miracle so strangely rare. I wonder what will next be there!"

-- Liberty Hyde Bailey

#Spring Quotes #Yesterday Quotes #Miracle Quotes

“If you're going to vote yes and change the law. You have to know what's in it. You can't depend on other people.”
“I got high, and forgot I wasn't supposed to get high.”
“Sometimes Ronan thought Adam was so used to the right way being painful that he doubted any path that didnâ€™t come with agony.”
“I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.”
“In a fire you have to be thoughtful, you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.”

Source : "Learning to Take the Heat / Author Caroline Paul faced blazes and prejudice as an S.F. firefighter" by Sylvia Rubin, www.sfgate.com. June 1, 1998.
“Europe is slow to react, it is lagging behind in competitiveness, there are problems with demography, population, serious problems with security, internal security and military capabilities.”
“For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.”
“We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.”

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