black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

Abraham Verghese

Related Topics

Broken Fixing Generations Next Unfinished

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Access Blessed Care Country Health Insured Kind Thinking
Make something beautiful of your life.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Beautiful Create Dream Journey Life m Wonder Something
It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Eerie Feeling Mentor Mouthpiece Old Room Shoe
She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Chasing Died Each Elsewhere Greatness Hand never Saw Seeking Time
Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Broken Family Ground Indian Modern New Read Sandip Roy Tale
What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Country Disease Fight Fighting Godly Poverty
You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

God Instrument Leave Play Sitting Son Three
My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Deathbed Heart Mean Patient People Regret VIP
Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Country Interlude Less Life Meal More
It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Alive Currency Memories Memory Proof Stories
I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Believe Cat Hospital Inspiration Joke Limb Missing Motivation Scan
A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Bag Beautiful Black Caring Collection Country Literary Remove Romantic
Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Backward Caught Forward Life Look Near Stop Understand Wheel
Being the first born gives you great patience.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Being Born First Giving Great Patience
According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Broken End Fixing Generation Hole Metaphors Precisely Shiva Task
Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Clumsy Exam Getting Heartbeat Patient

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes