"There are moments in history when brooding..." - Quote by Indira Gandhi
There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.
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“I learned very soon to get along by myself.”
“With boys I climbed trees, ran races, and wrestled. I had no complexes of envy or inferiority toward boys. At the same time, however, I liked dolls.”
“Just when you think you've achieved something, you realize you've achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same - toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.”
More on History
“We all stand on the shoulders of the past generation.”
“The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.”
“Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.”
More on Memory
“He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.”
“when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.”
“There is nothing to regret, either for those who go, or for those who stay behind — only an inheritance of good accomplishment to be lived up to by those who carry a loving memory in their hearts.”