"From the seed grows a root, then a sprout; from the sprout, the seedling leaves; from the leaves, the stem; around the stem, the branches; at the top, the flower. . . We cannot say that the seed causes the growth, nor that the soil does. We can say that the potentialities for growth lie within the seed, in mysterious life forces, which, when properly fostered, take on certain forms."

-- Mary Caroline Richards

#Lying Quotes #Flower Quotes #Roots Quotes

“You have to learn certain skills to present magic.”
“Your goal is to make a better world through the work you do. It's not always possible, and you have to earn a living.”
“I put more lawmen in the ground than Alabama put cottonseed,”
“I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life,”

Source : "'I'm not the gay bishop - I'm just the bishop'". Interview With Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2009.
“I am no I. I am now part of a we.”

Source : Jerry Pinto (2014). “Em and the Big Hoom”, p.78, Penguin UK
“They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine of the mountain chain fluttering and sucked away again in the dark. They saw wild horses racing on the plain, pounding their shadows down the night and- leaving in the moonlight a vaporous dust like the palest stain of their passing.”
“Never back down, never fear anyone, for the best opponents will help you to play your best.”
“Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don't really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?”

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