#tho

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures. ↗

— Maya Lin

#apart #architecture #art #crazy #creatures

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions. ↗

— Maya Lin

#both #college #made #me #parents

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid. ↗

— Maya Lin

#confront #invoke #necessary #some #thought

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#doubt #fool #out #remain #remove

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#best #flower #grow #i #i always

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#nothing #public #public sentiment #sentiment #succeed

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#fail #nothing #public #public sentiment #sentiment

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#armies #asia #blue #chest #combined

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#give #notice #own #quality #reward

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#been #below #early #early mornings #evenings