A man is only as rich as the number of children he fathers. After all, what else do we leave behind in this world...
("Cutting for Stone")
More Quotes from Abraham Verghese:
My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.Abraham Verghese
I'm ashamed of our human capacity to hurt and maim one another, to desecrate the body. Yet it allows me to see the cabalistic harmony of heart peeking out behind lung, of liver and spleen consulting each other under the dome of the diaphragm -- these things leave me speechless.
Abraham Verghese
When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
Abraham Verghese
The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
Abraham Verghese
Life is full of signs. The trick is to know how to read them. Ghosh called this heuristics, a method for solving a problem for which no formula exists.
Abraham Verghese
I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
Abraham Verghese
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Children Quotes, Fathers Quotes, Man Quotes, World QuotesOnce you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.
Dan Gable
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
Haruki Murakami
I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.
Steven Wright