"In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground."

-- George Eliot

#Spring Quotes #Growth Quotes #Mind Quotes

“If you look at the other singers of Billie Holiday's time, they were really trying to entertain. They were trying to make people feel good. They were singing fast - and she was singing the blues.”
“There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.”
“I meditate and I'm passionate about it.”
“Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.”
“The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much, or the environment would be even worse than it is already.”
“Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
“Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not rush across town to do good deeds, and in Hackberry's view, there was no more odious taint on any social or political endeavor than universal approval.”

Source : James Lee Burke (2011). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.540, Simon and Schuster
“I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.”

You may also like:

Charles Dickens
Writer
Charlotte Bronte
Novelist
Elizabeth Gaskell
Novelist
Emily Bronte
Novelist
Evelyn Waugh
Writer
Jane Austen
Novelist
Thomas Hardy
Novelist
Virginia Woolf
Writer
William Makepeace Thackeray
Novelist