"When the young woman leans over the sky, about to water the flowers as well as the weeds, her white front splits open until her milk runs."

-- Gunter Grass

#Running Quotes #Weed Quotes #Flower Quotes

“If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.”
“Justin Halpern tosses lightning bolts of laughter out of his pocket like he is shooting dice in a back alley. In one sweep of a paragraph, he ranges from hysterical to disgusting to touching--and does it all seamlessly. Sh*t My Dad Says is a really, really funny book.”
“So requisite is the use of Astrology to the Arts of Divination, as it were the Key that opens the door of all their Mysteries.”

Source : Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1676). “The Vanity of Arts and Sciences”, p.109
“Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.”
“No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.”
“If the Olympic champion doesn't know how to jump quad, I don't know. Now it's not figure skating. Now it's dancing.”
“Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow”
“Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work, the slower is its growth, the surer is its lasting success. Mushrooms attain their full power in a night; oaks require decades. A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries.”

Source : William George Jordan (2007). “The Majesty of Calmness”, p.12, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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