"To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession."

-- William Standish Knowles

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Medicine Quotes

“When Spring is old, and dewy windsBlow from the south, with odors sweet,I see my love, in shadowy groves,Speed down dark aisles on shining feet.”
“Sorry Johnny." "Sorry for what " "For shouting at you. It's just that when I think about the future I keep panicking. It's like falling from the top of the stairs in the dark not knowing where I'll end up." He put his arm around my shoulders. "I understand. Life is precarious for most of us but more so for you. What you forget is what most of your friends see in you." "What's that " "The ability to beat the odds..." "And fall on my feet " He nodded. "I just hope that lasts." "It will Catkin it will. It wouldn't dare fail you.”

Source : Julia Golding (2011). “Den of Thieves”, p.124, Egmont UK
“Guns are our friends because in a country without guns, I'm what's known as "prey." All females are.”
“I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.”
“It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm was brewing, and between the splashes of rain on the windows there was the silence of death. All nature suffers in such moments; the trees writhe in pain and twist their heads; the birds of the fields cower under the bushes; the streets of cities are deserted.”
“But you know, if you live an affluent lifestyle, there are all types of trappings that are there that you have to be cognizant of, and you've got to try and communicate freely and gain understanding about and then keep moving on, because you know, sometimes lifestyles are chosen for us as opposed to us choosing them.”
“A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.”
“There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts.”

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