Carvic Valdellon Quotes

“Every now and then I have to take a backward step in giving in. Not because of expecting something in return. But because I want to see how far God has changed me from what I used to be. I guess this is the only pain of humility! To offer your own heartbeat every single day!”

“Knowing themselves to be faultless, they make it their mission to detect the myriad faults in others, against which they wage incessant tongue.”

“I mean it, it’s another gap in your education. Until you can learn to understand her, you’ll get nowhere as a detective. She’s everybody’s conscience, Bob—the universal maiden aunt, cousin or sister. Humanity’s backbone. Throughout history, she’s gone to the stake for you again and again; not with any sense of heroism, but as a matter of principle and because it would never occur to her to do anything else.”

“Lazy and indifferent the heron returns”

“But for their cries,The herons would be lostAmidst the morning snow.”

“Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.”

“You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.”

“All the dreams you show up in are not your own.”

“Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.”

“It may be crazy, but I'm the closest thing I have to a voice of reason.”