Famous quotes containing the words flourishing and/or conclusion:
“It will always be found that one flourishing institution exists and battens on another mouldering one. The Present itself is parasitic to this extent.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The conclusion has never changed: the worst sort of people come here for the worst sort of reasons and put upon those of us who have conveniently forgotten where we came from and how we got here.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)