"The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried."

-- Joan Didion

#Past Quotes #Genealogy Quotes

“Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice.”

Source : Paul Fussell (1982). “The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations”, Oxford University Press, USA
“The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The U.K. has not.”
“I just travel all the time.”
“Who can live in heart so glad As the merry country lad?”

Source : Nicholas Breton (1893). “A Bower of Delights: Being Interwoven Verse and Prose from the Works of Nicholas Breton”
“Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.”

Source : Henry Purcell, Nahum Tate (1978). “Purcell, Didon et Enée”
“Nobody makes a turd like that and lives.”
“Ah! believers, you are a tempted people. You are always poor and needy. And God intends it should be so, to give you constant errands to go to Jesus. Some may say, it is not good to be a believer; but ah! see to whom we can go.”
“Basically, I'm a shy human being. Very introverted.”

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