He wrote that at any given moment, " some words are budding, and some falling away… a whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology, and… even a whole life would not be sufficient" .
The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way. Andrew Jackson Youth fades; love droops;the leaves of friendship fall.
WALTER CRONKITE: Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away; they just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is. Friday, March sixth, nineteen eighty-one.
Without these, where were the fruits to support human life; where the buds and blossoms and fading flowers which teach us many a lesson useful to life eternal?