"Human beings aren't orchids; we must draw something from the soil we grow in."

-- Sara Jeannette Duncan

#Acceptance Quotes #Orchids Quotes #Soil Quotes

“Sometimes you have to experience the bad, so that you can learn to appreciate the good things that enter your life.”
“What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.”
“Growing up, I watched softball and U.S.A .softball, and that was my goal of being able to represent my country and wear the red, white, and blue out there, and I think it is one of the highest honors to be able to go out there and compete for your country, and it was something so very special, and it was everything I dreamt of and more.”
“Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the Lord, but even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened.”
“One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.”
“An important meeting point for me was realizing the similarity between a DJ set and a Grateful Dead set: I grew up listening to how the Dead would take a song and just jam on it, and then transition into another song.”

Source : "The Strangest Trip: Animal Collective on the Legacy of Animal Collective". Interview with Matthew Schnipper, pitchfork.com. February 8, 2016.
“You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it obsolete.”
“I worry unnecessarily.”

Source : "Q&A Natalie Imbruglia". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2005.

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